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Marianne Vitale at Invisible Exports

Marianne Vitale gives new meaning to life on the rails with her repurposed railway tracks as minimalist sculpture, steel junctions as totemic figures and now, a train engine housing resembling a gas-masked ghoul.  Part of an exhibition that includes stacks of metal flangeway blocks that recall indecipherable letter shapes, Vitale’s art is anthropology – a search through remnants of a recently bygone era for clues to life in the not-so-distant past.  (On view at Invisible Exports on the Lower East Side through June 24th).

Marianne Vitale, Skull, repurposed train engine parts, 49 x 42 x 8 inches, 2018.

Marianne Vitale at Invisible Exports

In a grouping of hand-painted wooden torpedoes, Marianne Vitale swaps out her signature bold, minimalist sculptures made with railway ties or battered wood for personalized weapons bearing ‘American’ symbols including USDA meat and Pollock-like swirls of paint. (At Invisible-Exports on the Lower East Side through Oct 16th).

 

Marianne Vitale, How’m-I-doin,’ pine, oil paint, hardware, approx. 13 x 8 x 8 feet, 2016.
Marianne Vitale, How’m-I-doin,’ pine, oil paint, hardware, approx. 13 x 8 x 8 feet, 2016.

Amanda Nedham in ‘Frida Smoked’ at Invisible Exports

An ostrich, Asiatic black bear and other animals look to be constructed of cigarettes but have actually been crafted from Sculpey and acrylic by Amanda Nedham. A standout in Invisible Export’s group exhibition on the current cultural status of smoking, Nedham equates animals threatened by habitat loss with another endangered species – the smoker. (At Invisible Exports on the Lower East Side through June 19th).

Amanda Nedham, installation view in ‘Frida Smoked,’ sculptures in Sculpey and acrylic, 2016.
Amanda Nedham, installation view in ‘Frida Smoked,’ sculptures in Sculpey and acrylic, 2016.

Philadelphia Wireman at Invisible Exports

An art student discovered a cache of tiny sculptures left on the sidewalk for the trash truck; thirty years later, they’re renowned as the work of the anonymous outsider artist known as the Philadelphia Wireman.  Invisible Exports enlivens a selection of them by showing them alongside a huge Vik Muniz photo from his Pictures of Junk series.  (On the Lower East Side through July 13).