Peter Goldlust & Julie Hughes: Malflourished Opening October 14, 2006

a new cankerous installation
In Malflourished, a colony of feral art organisms infests & infects the clinical white surfaces of a formal gallery space. The installation approximates an overgrown floral arrangement that has sat too long, allowed to attract a swarm of sculptural pests.

Hanging strands of art-marrow (Meat Petals & Bruise Blossoms) form the focal point for this cankerous sculptural blight. These candy-colored suspended agglomerations, the blooming progeny of a mating between corpuscles & popsicles, fester & invite the attentions of a variety of secondary species. From the margins of the space, pustulant clusters of Gallery Pox (rash-like outcroppings of sculptural red wall dots) accrete like aggressive barnacles across the room. They protrude & burrow out of the gallery’s skin, to thrive in the warm, moist, germ hothouse environment of the opening-night reception.

These wall galls then diversify into variants that range across the plant/animal continuum. One strain grows into a crop of digitated strawberries. Others emerge from pupa to crawl & hover around the central arrangements like mutant fruit flies or malevolent spermatozoa.

"In 2005 their "Polyponesian Tuberfoil Mangrove” was a new approach to installation for the gallery & the artists. It was somewhat site specific in that it was inspired by a futuristic Chinatown (where the gallery was located) & included various ephemera found in the neighborhood shops.

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