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David Ford, White Like Me, Courtesy the artist
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Opens Friday Apr 25, 2008 (7–9pm)
Apr 26, 2008 – May 25, 2008
Mondays (noon–6pm)
Fridays–Sundays (noon–6pm)
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David Ford's multimedia installation White Like Me incorporates the florid magic realism of his large-scale paintings, the incisive wit of his photography, and the unpredictability of his performance art. Against a backdrop of fantastical images of celebrity egomania/delusion — Tom Cruise gazing longingly at the night sky, for instance — and an architectural installation evoking the quaint vacuousness of mainstream American culture, Ford deploys a troop of "performers" acting as a militia. The piece's many contradictions combine to illustrate the plight of the skeptical patriot in political dismay.
