Spring Break Art Show NYC 2022 “Love Junk” Booth# 1029

Curated by Jason Patrick Voegele

Featuring:  Edie Nadelhaft, Michelle Doll and Cobi Moules

Here we are, swimming around in the petri dish of a post analog world. Despite all the wonders of our awesome new technology, we still experience wars of aggression, desperate poverty, pandemic disease, addiction, gun violence, sex crimes, racism, homophobia, greed, and piracy. It’s just another day in the life of a 21st century earthling. Sometimes it feels like all the progress we made in the 20th century is bound to come crashing down all around us at any moment. For those who somehow endure these traumas, there is still the gloom of survivor’s guilt to juggle. We humans sure are complicated beings. It’s as if we were either built or evolved to be our own worst enemy.

However, as much as self-harm seems to be an inherent principle of our programing, so too are we endowed with the counterbalancing creative principles of love, conception, and introspection. Emotionally intimate love, joyful sexual intercourse and the existential beauty of a meaningful inward journey are all powerful symbols of that creative/regenerative force. When regularly exercised, these positive expressions can teach us to see reflections of ourselves in both the lives of everyday people and in the macrocosmic awe of the infinitely expanding universe. Isn’t it for those reasons we struggle to overcome seemingly impossible odds and refuse to give into despair or apathy? Don’t we labor for harmony in the hope that eventually, everything will find its balance? If so, it is fortunate for us that for every malevolently minded agent at work in the world there are benevolent champions out there, intent on keeping the balance in check.  

In this exhibition, “Love Junk”, Edie Nadelhaft, Michelle Doll and Cobi Moules, attempt to capture this spirit of optimism with new works that not only testify to affirmative creative power, but as a grouping, transcend the sum of their parts to celebrate the inextinguishably sublime, the sensual, the altruistic and the unselfish emotional forces we sometimes call love and sometimes call hope. Are you overwhelmed by the talking heads on your local news broadcast, stoking your fears about the world going to hell in a handbasket? Well, you can check your horrors at the door my friend, “Love Junk” has the post-traumatic stress relief you need. Also, the paintings are for sale.