Real Cool Time: Andrew Leo Baron
Curated by Evonne M. Davis
with fully illustrated color catalog with accompanying essay by Kara L. Rooney
catalog design by Rebecca Jampol

June 27 - July 25, 2009
Opening Reception June 27, 7 - 10 PM

"...Like a wolf in sheep's clothing, the paintings undermine the long sanctified notion of art as therapeutic, offering in their wake a realization of institutional deception and mal-intent.

Such declarations can be read on multiple levels, not simply pertaining to the art world but to the media, government and innumerable cultural institutions at large. As we as a society grow more and more compliant, content to be force fed with content and intent, we are in danger of entering an ideological vortex, one which once entered is difficult if not impossible to claw our way out of. In this sense, Landscape Narcotic, as well as many other of Baron's pieces, act as visual equivalents of a call-to-arms."

-from the essay