PLANT/MOLE/RABBIT/DUCK by Ben Galaday

November 16th, 6-8 pm, 2018

The show, curated by Bahareh Khoshooee, is comprised mainly of wall hanging upholstered sculptures and will be on view only for the night of 
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He took it like a botanist or morphologist given a specimen, not like a person given a flower.

‘About six inches in length,’ he commented. ‘A convoluted red form with a linear green attachment.’

‘Yes,’ I said encouragingly, ‘and what do you think it is, Dr P.?’

‘Not easy to say.’*

*Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat

Soft, malleable, and examined, a domesticated craft in an extended moment of adolescent catharsis, accepting its inherent circumstance with all its kitsch and nostalgia, reaches for a language that is deeper, richer, more accurate, precise. 

In loss and rabid confusion, here thrives an improvised and idiosyncratic mechanism of adaptation and expression of survival. A desperate righting of the self. 

Allow it to grow back, bent and strange, with awareness along the fault lines. A fresh batch of extraneous particularities cling to the roots.

Who are we now?

Where are my glasses?
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Ben Galaday, a Leo monkey from the Pacific Northwest, is a mixed-media artist currently working in Tampa, FL. He holds an MFA in Studio Art from University of South Florida and a BFA in Ceramics from Oregon College of Art and Craft.