Genesis Belanger in ‘Distortions’ at Nathalie Karg Gallery

A disembodied, boneless hand by Brooklyn artist Genesis Belanger is equal parts attractive and creepy, part of a table-top arrangement of stoneware sculpture that includes a languid cigarette, two partially consumed Pink Lady apples and a lamp with a severely pinched-waist.  Part of Nathalie Karg Gallery’s summer group show ‘Distortions,’ Belanger’s sculpture provocatively blurs the line between human bodies, food and consumer objects in what the New Yorker proffered as ‘funny-pages Surrealism.’ (On view on the Lower East Side through August 15th).

Installation view of works by Genesis Belanger, including Acquiesce (hand in foreground), stoneware, brass, plaster, 13 ½ x 7 ½ x 6 inches, 2018 and Birthday Suit (Background), stoneware, brass, plaster and linen lampshade, 37 ½h x 13w x 14d inches, 2018.

Jesse Mockrin at Nathalie Karg Gallery

Inspired by art history and contemporary fashion, LA-based oil painter Jesse Mockrin offers glimpses of androgynous creatures with long necks, doll-like features and strangely bone-less fingers. (At Nathalie Karg Gallery on the Lower East Side through Dec 6th).

Jesse Mockrin, One Summer Day, oil on linen, 37 x 25 inches, 2016.
Jesse Mockrin, One Summer Day, oil on linen, 37 x 25 inches, 2016.