{"id":10199,"date":"2023-03-14T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=10199"},"modified":"2025-02-12T23:07:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T04:07:39","slug":"hew-locke-at-ppow-gallery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/14\/hew-locke-at-ppow-gallery-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hew Locke, The Relic at PPOW Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two ships appear to float in the center of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ppowgallery.com\/exhibitions\/hew-locke2#tab:thumbnails;tab-1:slideshow\">PPOW\u2019s<\/a> Tribeca gallery space, their tattered sails and apparition-like figures on the cabins and crates suggesting that they\u2019ve floated in from another place and time.\u00a0 The sense of disorientation is key to Guyanese-British artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hewlocke.net\/Homepage2ndsite.html\">Hew Locke<\/a>\u2019s consideration of Guyana\u2019s colonial past and its future as the country experiences an oil boom.\u00a0 The dilapidated house on the deck of this ship is echoed in photographs on the wall of Guyanese houses that have seen better days; Locke adds acrylic renderings of water inundating the lower levels as a warning that human aspirations can be washed away by greater forces.\u00a0 (On view in Tribeca through April 1<sup>st<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 4021px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/ba19691a-65f7-2d7f-4314-eac164d6dbfa.jpg\" width=\"4021\" height=\"2440\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hew Locke, The Relic, wood and mixed media, 88 5\/8 x 98 3\/8 x 24 \u00be inches, 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two ships appear to float in the center of PPOW\u2019s Tribeca gallery space, their tattered sails and apparition-like figures on the cabins and crates suggesting that they\u2019ve floated in from another place and time.\u00a0 The sense of disorientation is key to Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke\u2019s consideration of Guyana\u2019s colonial past and its future as the &hellip; 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