Michael Joo at Carolina Nitsch Project Room

Many have pondered ‘the wages of sin,’ but few in quite the way that Michael Joo does in his Seven Sins series. Joo records the number of calories expended in pursuing anger, lust, pride and more, stamping the numbers on baking trays like these stacked floor to ceiling in Carolina Nitsch Project Room. Screen prints of the trays resemble historic photographs and ghostly traces of appetites indulged. (In Chelsea through April 1st).

Michael Joo, installation view of ‘Seven Sins,’ at Carolina Nitsch Project Room, February, 2017.