{"id":8853,"date":"2020-08-04T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=8853"},"modified":"2020-08-01T18:16:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T22:16:11","slug":"florencia-escudero-in-a-love-letter-to-a-nightmare-at-petzel-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/04\/florencia-escudero-in-a-love-letter-to-a-nightmare-at-petzel-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Florencia Escudero in \u2018A Love Letter to a Nightmare\u2019 at Petzel Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under the rubric of \u2018vamped Surrealism and Symbolism,\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petzel.com\/exhibitions\/a-love-letter-to-a-nightmare\">Petzel Gallery<\/a>\u2019s summer group show considers contemporary artwork that channels the power of the subconscious.\u00a0 At the gallery entrance, <a href=\"https:\/\/florenciaescudero.com\/\">Florencia Escudero<\/a>\u2019s disembodied eyes and face greet visitors like a digital mirage.\u00a0 Hand sewn and printed on satin and spandex, the sculpture\u2019s material qualities are as evocative as the impossibly odd character herself. (On view in Chelsea Tuesday \u2013 Friday, 10am \u2013 6pm through Aug 14<sup>th<\/sup>. Masks and social distancing are required.)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8854\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8854\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=8854\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8854\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8854\" src=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/florencia_escudero.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/florencia_escudero.jpg 2565w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/florencia_escudero-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/florencia_escudero-500x374.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Florencia Escudero, Frog Licker, Hand-sewn, digitally-printed satin and silkscreened spandex, 3D-printed plastic, metal purse clasp, with hand-sewn velvet, foam, and spacer mesh base, and hand-sewn, digitally-printed satin, silkscreened spandex, foam, and spacer mesh parts, 6.5 x 13.5 x 5 inches, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the rubric of \u2018vamped Surrealism and Symbolism,\u2019 Petzel Gallery\u2019s summer group show considers contemporary artwork that channels the power of the subconscious.\u00a0 At the gallery entrance, Florencia Escudero\u2019s disembodied eyes and face greet visitors like a digital mirage.\u00a0 Hand sewn and printed on satin and spandex, the sculpture\u2019s material qualities are as evocative as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/04\/florencia-escudero-in-a-love-letter-to-a-nightmare-at-petzel-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Florencia Escudero in \u2018A Love Letter to a Nightmare\u2019 at Petzel 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":false,"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":[8,117,1341,3957,8986,1795,8987,13,930,850,10,16],"class_list":["post-8853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-art","tag-chelsea","tag-fabric","tag-faces","tag-florencia-escudero","tag-foam","tag-frog-licker","tag-gallery","tag-petzel","tag-portrait","tag-sculpture","tag-tour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-2iN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853","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=8853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8855,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853\/revisions\/8855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}