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Tinsquo's curatorial project, Adjacent To Life, presents Tryna Get Over by Orianne Cosentino.
With a mix of humor, wistfulness and bravura, Orianne Cosentino’s Q U O T A painting series champions New York City’s dynamism and humanity while remaining cognizant of the loss and cruel opportunism that also shapes the city.
Cosentino states:
“Every painting in this series contains a collage of found NYC parking tickets. They come from the street ripped, waterlogged, scuffed, scrawled with angry messages and sometimes pristine. In these conditions the tickets form the foundation of each painting. Barcodes and numbers peek through the image to lend structure, texture, and color.“Q U O T A was born in the early 2000's as response to the luxurification of NYC. The tickets represent inflated fines doled out to the citizens and businesses that reside here. They are layered into street scenes which serve as documentation of places that come and go in the same name of progress.”
In their current manifestation the artist describes the paintings as “love letters more than ever.” Encouraging a beloved she implores: “New York, please be the beacon of energy, love, art, inclusion, wildness and solidarity that I know you to be. The world needs you now.”
Tryna Get Over is on view through July 9 at the Adjacent to Life gallery housed in Ninth Street Espresso (341 E. 10th Street at Ave B, New York City).
