Gallery two & Dark Room:

LYNCHLAND
Genre, Auteurism & a Fish in the Percolator

January 22 - March 12, 2022

Featured artists: Susan Ankersen, Alison Blickle, Polly Borland, Debra Broz, Matt Bucy, Bill Dane, Tomoo Gokita, Tim Hawkinson, Trulee Hall, Shana Moulton, Penelope Umbrico, Tim Youd.

Curated by Tom Dunn and Steven Wolkoff

Strange and beautiful, the films of David Lynch vary in subject, but are linked by a unique dreamlike logic that has captivated audiences and established itself as its own genre. The Oxford English Dictionary defines “Lynchian” as “juxtaposing surreal or sinister elements with mundane, everyday environments, and for using compelling visual images to emphasize a dreamlike quality of mystery or menace.”

Lynchland: Genre, Auteurism and a Fish in the Percolator* explores unheimlich artwork that could be considered fitting within the genre of David Lynch's films. The show is not a tribute to David Lynch and does not feature "fan art". Rather, it is an exploration of his genre, and how artwork that has a sense of the uncanny relates to how we understand something to be "Lynchian". 

This show explores a wide array of artwork that connects to the Lynchian genre. From photography to painting, video to sculpture, visual to olfactory art, Lynchland immerses the audience in the variety of ways the genre manifests in the contemporary art world.

* Referring to an incident in the first episode of Lynch’s Twin Peaks. “Fellas, don’t drink that coffee. You’d never guess…there was a fish in the percolator.”

"Lynchian: a particular kind of irony where the very macabre and the very mundane combine in such a way as to reveal the former's perpetual containment within the latter." – David Foster Wallace

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