Barrao: Mashups June 9, 2012

This exhibition features the work of Brazilian artist Barrao, who is known for his whimsical and quite bizarre ceramic clusters and mashups made from fragments of popular vitreous porcelain and clay objects. The artist scouts second-hand stores, flea markets, and dumpsters in search of materials for sculptures that subvert the original function or idea of the object in order to reveal unpredictable relationships, ranging from unexpected similarities to unseemly contradictions.