{"id":6634,"date":"2017-07-09T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=6634"},"modified":"2017-07-04T05:48:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T09:48:17","slug":"mernet-larsen-in-dream-machines-at-james-cohan-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/09\/mernet-larsen-in-dream-machines-at-james-cohan-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Mernet Larsen in \u2018Dream Machines\u2019 at James Cohan Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part of \u2018Dream Machines,\u2019 an exhibition that ponders how in daily life, \u2018the real and imaginary cease to be contradictory,\u2019 Mernet Larsen\u2019s surreal \u2018Sunday Drive\u2019 is both plausible and impossible at once. Her orange-toned factory fresh figures are perfect but creepy, giving viewers pause to reconsider the serendipity of an American tradition. (At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamescohan.com\/exhibitions\/2017-06-23_dream-machines\">James Cohan Gallery<\/a>\u2019s Chelsea location through July 28<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6635\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6635\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=6635\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6635\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6635\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/mernet_larsen-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/mernet_larsen-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/mernet_larsen.jpg 1897w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mernet Larsen, Sunday Drive, oil on canvas, 30 x 48 inches, 1986.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of \u2018Dream Machines,\u2019 an exhibition that ponders how in daily life, \u2018the real and imaginary cease to be contradictory,\u2019 Mernet Larsen\u2019s surreal \u2018Sunday Drive\u2019 is both plausible and impossible at once. Her orange-toned factory fresh figures are perfect but creepy, giving viewers pause to reconsider the serendipity of an American tradition. (At James Cohan &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/09\/mernet-larsen-in-dream-machines-at-james-cohan-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mernet Larsen in \u2018Dream Machines\u2019 at James Cohan 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":"","_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":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_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":[5,27,4],"tags":[8,117,7266,4242,13,6943,5304,33,7265,16],"class_list":["post-6634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-art","tag-chelsea","tag-dream-machines","tag-family","tag-gallery","tag-james-cohan","tag-mernet-larsen","tag-painting","tag-sunday-drive","tag-tour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-1J0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634","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=6634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6636,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634\/revisions\/6636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}