KENT, Conn.—Peggy Mercury, a gallery/boutique in the Kent Barns, opens its next show “Outside of the World,” Sunday, June 28.
It features recent painting by Deen Modino, with an artist’s reception on June 28 4 to 7 p.m. at 9 Maple St., Unit 2.
The exhibition features Modino’s most recent paintings on wood and small sculptures referencing visual memories, obsessions and spatial anomalies. Commanding the main wall of the gallery are 50 small paintings, each one a still in a moving diorama.
These are accompanied by several of his signature larger-scale paintings as well as shelf-size sculptures, created in wood, paint and resin crystals.
In his paintings, a wide range of influences collide and coalesce including ’60s sci-fi movies, Looney Tunes scenescapes, incongruous Asian decor in Italian American suburbia, pop art flower bedspreads, bucolic 19th-century landscapes, underground clubs and distressed, graffitied urban environments.
The characters inhabiting these environs are not part of our world nor do they want to be.
The show continues through Saturday, Aug. 2. Email hithere@peggymercury.com for more information.