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In 2012, designer Damien Saatdjian and I created The Peanut Gallery, an 8 ft x 5 ft micro-gallery housed within design and advertising agency Mother New York. Our aim was to carve out space solely for the experience of art—offering an antidote to the blank, industrial settings typical of New York’s gallery scene and re-centering focus on the work itself.
For our third exhibition, we presented Meat Form by San Francisco–based artist Brion Nuda Rosch, whose collages and sculptures humorously challenge perceptions of everyday objects and icons. In this exhibition, Rosch turned his attention to meat, presenting jarring imagery of cooked animal flesh within the intimate micro-gallery and on an expansive billboard at 44th and 11th Avenue in Manhattan—juxtaposing scale and setting to provoke thought on consumption and culture.
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Highlights:
Co-founded The Peanut Gallery, a micro-gallery within Mother New York
Curated and produced exhibitions reimagining how audiences experience art
Meat Form exhibition extended beyond the gallery to a NYC billboard installation
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Curation: Gilian Rappaport, Damien Saatdjian; Executive Creative Director: Michael Ian Kay
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Images courtesy of Brion Nuda Rosch, Damien Saatdjian, and Bullett.