Consensual Ennui

Bráulio Amado, Theodora Allen, Robert Beatty, Pali Xisto Cornelsen, Brian DeGraw, Nick Dahlen, Ana Kraŝ, Eric Ernest Johnson, Casey McCafferty, Galen Pehrson, Tim Presley, Eddie Ruscha, Blanca Miró Skoudy, Todd St. John, Yelena Yemchuk, Andrew Theodore, Adam Tullie

The Landing Gallery is pleased to present Consensual Ennui, a group exhibition curated by Andrew Theodore. A coming-together of artists and designers working in an array of media, materials, and styles, Consensual Ennui comprises textiles, paintings, objects, furniture, and music linked by subtle threads, aesthetic affinities, and distant echoes. You wouldn’t really want to put a name to it, though. It’s more intuitive, slippery, an interplay of effects: you can follow the movements, but it won’t sit still. Personal relationships also link things here; friendships, past collaborations, and mutual influence connect some of the artists. A few have admired each other’s work from afar. This sense of sociality and creative collusion form the basis for the exhibition, while its context—as the title says—is a sweet sort of gloom. An old adage says we create out of misery, so we consent to being out of sorts. Now seems like a good moment to stage these works that want to commiserate in the same space.