Julian LaVerdiere, Soft Targets, 2007, 51 black Nerf federal eagle heads, 180″ diam. x 36″. Courtesy the artist and Lehman Maupin Gallery

LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- P.S.1 presents Silicone Valley , an exhibition featuring 12 American artists whose works, on the surface, posit false realities. By employing and implying decoys, violence, and manifestations of the grotesque, the show probes the merger of seduction with horror. Silicone Valley is on view in the First Floor Main Gallery through April 9, 2007.

The title makes reference to Silicon Valley, the nexus of the dot com phenomenon. 'Silicon' is frequently misspelled 'silicone,' a synthetic material commonly used for plastic surgery—in other words, a corporeal decoy. The exhibition includes a selection of photographs from Meredith Allen's Forever series, which showcases her mother's Beanie Baby collection protectively and melancholically sealed in plastic bags. Lire la suite de l'article http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=19533

Meredith Allen, Forever (monkey), 2005, Archival pigment print, 11 1/4 x 17 1/2″. Courtesy Amy Simon Fine Art.