{"id":10527,"date":"2024-02-02T11:00:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=10527"},"modified":"2025-02-11T14:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T19:45:08","slug":"john-oconnor-at-pierogi-gallery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/02\/john-oconnor-at-pierogi-gallery-2\/","title":{"rendered":"John O&#8217;Connor, Car Crash at Pierogi Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnjoconnor.net\">John O\u2019Connor<\/a>\u2019s enticingly colorful drawings at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pierogi2000.com\/2023\/11\/john-oconnor\/\">Pierogi Gallery<\/a>\u2019s Chelsea popup take viewers down the rabbit hole into surreal scenarios told with endlessly inventive typography and icons.\u00a0 Here, the eye-grabbing \u2018Car Crash\u2019 pictures a fictional multi-car pileup in which cars of lesser value crash into increasingly more expensive vehicles, starting with a Honda Civic and reaching a Lotus and continuing with fictional cars (Dukes of Hazzard, Flintstones).\u00a0 O\u2019Connor explains that the spiraling drawing represents the transfer of kinetic energy from car to car, a stand-in for a transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich.\u00a0 At the center of this dynamic, pulsing vortex is a worm hole, ready to transport cars, viewers and all into another place and time. (On view at 524 West 19<sup>th<\/sup> Street through Feb 10<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 2780px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/19dae5dd-4234-dc33-ea9c-5cdb1c86cb22.jpg\" width=\"2780\" height=\"3347\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John O\u2019Connor, Car Crash, colored pencil and graphite on paper, 85 x 69.75 inches, 2023.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John O\u2019Connor\u2019s enticingly colorful drawings at Pierogi Gallery\u2019s Chelsea popup take viewers down the rabbit hole into surreal scenarios told with endlessly inventive typography and icons.\u00a0 Here, the eye-grabbing \u2018Car Crash\u2019 pictures a fictional multi-car pileup in which cars of lesser value crash into increasingly more expensive vehicles, starting with a Honda Civic and reaching &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/02\/john-oconnor-at-pierogi-gallery-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;John O&#8217;Connor, Car Crash at Pierogi Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[10758,117,882,13,6502,6104,2881],"class_list":["post-10527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-car-crash","tag-chelsea","tag-drawing","tag-gallery","tag-john-oconnor","tag-pierogi","tag-pop-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-2JN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11495,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10527\/revisions\/11495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}