This latest show by Australian artist Andrew Chan couldn't be more timely given this presidential election. It ponders the ravages of war, its aftermath and, to quote author Leon Uris, its terrible beauty.

This new exhibition at hpgrp gallery New York in Manhattan's Meatpacking District features an 11-foot-long papier-mache battleship ... drawings and paintings depicting disturbing piles of military and other industrial detritus (helmets, scrap metal, engine blocks and Humvees) ... a "Terrorvision" wall of portraits in the style of TV-screen media walls, featuring terrorists and extremists in the media ... and a video in collaboration with New York-based artist Jason Varone representing glitchy, questionable security camera on the battleship.

Andrew Chan's work has been described as "apocalyptic realism" by Ben Binstock, the author of Vermeer's Family Secrets (Routledge, 2008) and a professor of art history at Cooper Union. Andrew's work ranges from commentaries on rampant consumerism, the underlying violence and abyss of Western culture, even our obsession with food, consumption (in all forms) and eating. In "War-mart," these themes are weaved around the central form of the 11-foot-long battleship, paintings and drawings of military and industrial detritus, a surveillance video and a wall of works featuring images taken from television.