{"id":7648,"date":"2018-08-11T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=7648"},"modified":"2018-08-02T07:08:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T11:08:53","slug":"genesis-belanger-in-distortions-at-nathalie-karg-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/11\/genesis-belanger-in-distortions-at-nathalie-karg-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Genesis Belanger in &#8216;Distortions&#8217; at Nathalie Karg Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0 Part of <a href=\"http:\/\/nathaliekarg.com\/?exhibitions=distortions\">Nathalie Karg Gallery<\/a>\u2019s summer group show \u2018Distortions,\u2019 Belanger\u2019s sculpture provocatively blurs the line between human bodies, food and consumer objects in what the New Yorker proffered as \u2018funny-pages Surrealism.\u2019 (On view on the Lower East Side through August 15<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7649\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7649\" style=\"width: 193px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=7649\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7649\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7649\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/genesis_belanger-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7649\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Installation view of works by Genesis Belanger, including Acquiesce (hand in foreground), stoneware, brass, plaster, 13 \u00bd x 7 \u00bd x 6 inches, 2018 and Birthday Suit (Background), stoneware, brass, plaster and linen lampshade, 37 \u00bdh x 13w x 14d inches, 2018.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0 Part of Nathalie Karg Gallery\u2019s summer group show \u2018Distortions,\u2019 Belanger\u2019s sculpture provocatively blurs the &hellip; 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