Written By Casey Lynch on April 4, 2012 in Reviews Jason Kofke and Chris Chambers, 1984 Pontiac Fiero SE, 2012, four-cylinder Iron Duke engine, manual transmission, appropriated rail-road ties, 10,000-pound lashing straps. Photo courtesy the artists. Kofke and Chambers’s The Ends Suggests That Change is in the Air Written By Casey Lynch on April 4, 2012 in Reviews Jason Kofke and Chris Chambers, 1984 Pontiac Fiero SE, 2012, four-cylinder Iron Duke engine, manual transmission, appropriated rail-road ties, 10,000-pound lashing straps. Photo courtesy the artists. Before entering The Ends, Beep Beep Gallery’s two-person show featuring works by Jason Kofke and Chris Chambers, I could see a black Pontiac Fiero (circa 1984) through the front window, foreshadowing what I would instantly notice upon entering the space: the smell. At first, I thought the scent was of motor oil—it certainly was not “new-car” fragrance—then I realized what it was: the stench of nostalgia. On the surface, the show comes off as a walk down memory lane, a conversation between two artists recreating shared childhood memories by trading on the media and imagery of their glory days; on a deeper level, the show extends a critical view of the world today, and a premonition of things to come. READ THE ENTIRE REVIEW HERE.
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