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When:<\/strong> April, 2025
Where:<\/strong> Outlier’s Gallery,
157A First Street, #246, Jersey City, NJ<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My solo exhibition, Stilled Resistance<\/em><\/strong>, at Outliers Gallery<\/strong> in Jersey City, NJ<\/strong> is on display through the month of April, 2025. The show features a series of still life paintings that, at first glance, might seem playful or nostalgic \u2014 familiar items like Twinkies<\/strong>, Lay\u2019s Potato Chips<\/strong>, and Kentucky Fried Chicken<\/strong> rendered in vibrant detail. But beneath their glossy wrappers and bright branding, these foods served as symbolic stand-ins for the everyday person<\/strong>, caught in the currents of larger societal forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each painting in Stilled Resistance<\/em> was a meditation on the social and economic issues<\/strong> shaping our times. The Twinkies piece, for example, addressed The Great Replacement Theory<\/a><\/strong>, repurposing the iconic snack cake as a satirical but unsettling metaphor for how conspiracy rhetoric can dehumanize and distract. The bag of potato chips in Price Gouged<\/a><\/strong> takes on the issue of corporate price gouging<\/strong>, referencing how even the most mundane products reflect growing inequality and corporate overreach. Another painting featuring Kentucky Fried Chicken<\/a><\/strong> explored the intersections of class, cultural identity, and mass consumption<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The show invited viewers to confront these tensions through the lens of still life \u2014 a traditionally quiet genre reimagined here as a subtle but pointed form of resistance. By elevating junk food to the realm of oil painting, I aimed to draw attention to the overlooked, the discarded, and the deeply personal ways we all navigate a world shaped by profit, power, and disinformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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