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Ugly, Broke, Sober

 

October 18 - November 24, 2012

 

Opening Reception October 18

 

An exhibition devoted to the celebration of everything we're encouraged to avoid and deny. No one wants to think of themselves as falling within the Ugly Broke Sober category -- they all want to be Beautiful and Successful and High (whether chemically or on the wings of their own invention and spirit). But if we deny ugliness, then beauty can no longer be beautiful, because it needs its opposite to define itself; if we fear poverty, then our involvement with money becomes desperate and degrading; if sobriety is suspect, then enjoying a stone becomes a trap rather than an alternative way of seeing and experiencing things. - Nicole V. Gagne