Joey Frank & Daniel Kent

Peas and Carrots continues the duo’s thematic exploration of man’s relationship with the terms of engagement, rules, and bureaucracy: being the good member of society. Unlike other work about alienation, Peas and Carrots highlights cooperation and friendship within said alienation.

In the cosmology of dinner, peas and carrots are together as a side dish - it’s an arbitrary, yet complementary pair - a little bit opposite but not in opposition. Bread and butter, nuts and bolts... “Symbolic systems do not stand in isolation” writes the anthropologist David Graeber, “they are not to be thought of in terms of what they ‘stand for,’ but are defined by their relations to each other.”

Peas and carrots are a simple system. With a modified billiards table as its centerpiece, Peas and Carrots, invites visitors to play a game of pool with carrot shaped cue sticks and pea colored balls on a table that has been altered to house a 3D lenticular television. Through taking turns and adhering to the rules of the game, two players create a single event. Mind your p’s and q’s!

“Are you stupid or something? Mama always says, ‘Stupid is as stupid does.’ From that day on we was always together, Jenny and me was like peas and carrots.”

Frank and Kent have worked together since 2011 and are kind of like peas and carrots. Together, they have made the collaborative exhibitions Here to Go (2015) and Head Light (2016). Joey Frank was born in 1981 in Washington, DC and edits the journal at Pioneer Works, Daniel Kent was born in 1991 in Edmonton, Canada and is the Designer Director at Pioneer Works. Separately Joey has shown his work at James Fuentes; Rodeo Gallery, Istanbul; Waterfront, Kingston, NY; Mothership, Woodstock, NY. Daniel Kent recently had a show that you fished for beers and oysters out of an iced up dumpster.

The opening for Peas and Carrots will be an inverse work day, from 9pm to 5am. The opening is scheduled to end the morning of November 11th, 2017, Veteran’s Day, the anniversary of the signing an armistice agreement to end the first World War, a document inked by Germany at 5am on that day in 1918. It has been observed for 99 years as a day off work.

On view by appointment through December 10th