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Arkadiy Ryabin, (Signature) / Ball chain, cast concrete, vinyl tubing, acrylic, 2019
Arkadiy Ryabin, (Geo) / Ball chain, cast concrete, vinyl tubing, acrylic, 2019
Arkadiy Ryabin, (Heritage) / Ball chain, cast concrete, vinyl tubing, acrylic, 2019
Arkadiy Ryabin, (Чебурашка) / Ball chain, cast concrete, vinyl tubing, acrylic, 2019
Arkadiy Ryabin, (Lost heritage) / Ball chain, cast concrete, vinyl tubing, acrylic, 2019
Arkadiy Ryabin, (ar) / Ball chain, cast concrete, vinyl tubing, acrylic, 2019
Arkadiy Ryabin, Medical incident / Cast concrete, vinyl tubing, beet juice, 2019
Ala Dehghan, Untitled / Vinyl print, paint, chain, 2019
Arkadiy Ryabin, 9 spuds / Concrete, ball chain, 2019
Arkadiy Ryabin, 9 spuds (detail) / Concrete, ball chain, 2019
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Arkadiy Ryabin, Psyche again / Styrofoam, plaster bandage, pain, 2019
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Robin Kang, Crystal Visions / Hand Jacquard woven cotton, metallic, and holographic yarns, 2017
Robin Kang, String Circuit / Hand Jacquard woven cotton, hand dyed kid mohair, silk, metallic, plastic, and holographic yarns, 2017
Arkadiy Ryabin, B_semen_ _he_ry / Vinyl tubing, cast concrete, acrylic, 2019
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Arkadiy Ryabin, Basement theory 2084 (Still) 11:35 / Performance documentation, 2019
Installation view / Photographed with work by Chris Domenick
Arkadiy Ryabin, Basement theory 2019 / Cast concrete, vinyl tubin, acrylic, 2019
Ala Dehghan, Robin Kang, and Arkadiy Ryabin are artists who make work as a response to the profusion of objects, blurred histories, and digital data under late capitalism. Through a wide array of media, these artists mime networks and structures that are often overlooked, or seen as elemental. However, through their work they ask us to formally consider the absurdity of the power structures that exist between craft, and our current media saturated landscape.
Ala Dehghan uses sites-specific collage - made complex by her combined use of manufactured, synthetic, and natural materials - highlighting the importance of a post-human, femininist critique of our economic and political strata.
Robin Kang weaves tapestries that illustrate a hybrid of digital networks and marks, mythic symbolism, and an homage to her Southwestern upbringing. She uses a hand-operated Jacquard loom - arguably the precursor to the invention of the computer, to teach us about the historical connections between the textile industry, and the development of modern technology.
Arkadiy Ryabin’s sculptures and video question class and commodification via mundane forms and objects. These objects have been manipulated to become skins and bodies, some bearing emblems that reference American immigration - specifically the history of Jewish immigration to the Lower East Side.