Ping Pong Gallery
1240 22nd St
415.550.7483
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Walter Logue, Untitled, Courtesy Ping Pong Gallery
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June 20, 2008 – July 18, 2008
Tuesdays (6–9pm)
Thursdays (6–9pm)
Fridays–Saturdays (11am–5pm)
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While the infamously grouchy Samuel Johnson averred that those unleashing their brute natures were in fact purging themselves of "the pain of being a man," The Beast in Me — a new exhibition at Ping Pong Gallery — grants our inner wild things a far more nuanced and sympathetic ear. Inspired by Nick Lowe's glum crooning, the show features Astrid Bowlby's meticulous, swarming drawings and Bethany Ayres' bold, cherub-laced tableaux. Meanwhile, Paul Clipson's montage films (familiar to Tarantel fans) and Walter Logue's equally clipped, etymological paintings bookend the beast in a dreamier, abstract context. Most compellingly though, Reuben Lorch-Miller and Alexander Cheves suggest that struggle's darkest elements are self-made.
