February 22, 2025

Insidious Raft at Adjacent to Life

Adjacent To Life, presents Insidious Raft by Lars van Dooren.

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029, graphite and colored pencil on paper, 8.5” x 11”

Insidious Raft

Some fleeting constructions adrift in acid clouds. Graphite memories, speculative dead-ends, future objects. With casual biology and structural hesitance, they roam.

Marks of scruffy intuition and radiant dashes inform them.

Animal and sculptural kin.

Two medium size works disrupt the ether. More earthly. Grids and voids ground the terrestrial space.

With fresh limbs they gather in neon growth. Do they land or pass by?

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Lars van Dooren was born in the port city of Tacoma, Washington and received his MFA from a school in NYC.

Some exhibition locations include SEASON (WA), Honey Ramka Gallery (NYC), The Knockdown Center (NYC), Eastern Michigan University (MI), PRIMETIME (NYC), as well as the occasional subway station, partially abandoned building, and overlooked spaces in our urban environment. In these locations, his work is left for rot or removal.

He lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn with his family and also exists here.


Insidious Raft is on view through March 21, 2025 at the Adjacent To Life gallery housed in Ninth Street Espresso (341 E. 10th Street at Ave B, New York City). Artist's reception: Saturday, February 22, 7:00 - 9:00 pm.

Posted by Mark Roth at February 22, 2025 08:18 AM