05/20/2026
On view now: ‘Club Bar’ benefit fundraiser curated by Marissa Graziano
From the press release –
‘Club Bar’ reframes the manipulative environments of cinemas, casinos, and dive bars within the gallery context, exposing how space, artifice, and participation condition spectatorship and shape audience behavior. Its materials underscore this duality: wood paneling revealed as vinyl, framed images reproduced from dive bar ephemera, clamp lights spray-painted to mimic glass fixtures, carpet thick with the suggestion of stale cigarette smoke. The space is unmistakably artificial, however, unlike a traditional gallery, the audience is integral to it. Visitors are invited to play roulette, navigate a table maze, or linger by the pool table. Pay, play, drink, bet, repeat. The rhythms of these activities mirror the systems they reference, revealing the gallery itself as an active agent where the act of looking becomes the subject under scrutiny.
Bradley Milligan and Nathan Friedman, 8 ball, 2026, Scrap wood, body filler, latex paint, felt, India ink, buckets, cans, jars, 36 x 72 x 30 in [price on request]
Raffle tkts available thru the link in our bio
$25 bundle = 10 tkts or $5 a pop
**Winners announced June 20 on IG live
Sat 12-6pm // by appt thru June 20 @ 52 Allen
