Track 16 Gallery is pleased to present “When the Summer Bullet Sings,” an exhibition of thirty-five artists organized by gallery director Sean Meredith and curator Diana Sardaryan, on view from July 20 to September 7, 2024 in our tenth floor space at 1206 Maple Ave in the Bendix Building. The gallery will host an opening reception on Saturday, July 20 from 6-9pm.
“When the Summer Bullet Sings” – a round with an etched name is loaded into a revolver. And like a tightrope artist eyeing the chasm, Summer is a chance to grasp at freedom and acceptance – even through violence and desperation. As more of a hazing than a season, this exhibition brings together over thirty artists whose works plant ideas to expose corrupt histories, stockpile intangible circumspection, and shock you out of your rational human costume like a circus oddity.
Greasy lakes, campsite bathrooms, a liquor store parking lot, pigeon spikes: the exhibition reveals something strange is at play. Despite the vague trauma, the dose of the magic of being alive pulls you back to the playground again and again, keeping you subservient yet leading you to new freedoms through uneasy transformations. Treating nostalgia as a kind of sickness, the artists subvert our perspective of memory and through the mysteries resulting from material and process phantasmagoric inquiries are revealed.
Artists in the exhibition include: Lisa Adams, Damariz Aispuro, Sacha Halona Baumann, Sandow Birk, Debra Broz, Nao Bustamante, Cash-Cooper, David Daigle, Simone Gad, Victor Gastelum, Gregg Gibbs, Terrick Gutierrez, Margarete Hahner, Kathleen Henderson, Jon Huck, Bill Kleiman, Laura Krifka, Evri Kwong, Curt LeMieux, Charlotte Lethbridge, Karen Lofgren, Siobhan McClure, Mondongo, Rubén Ortiz Torres, Carolie Parker, Elyse Pignolet, Alicia Piller, Molly Segal, Laurie Steelink, Nick Taggart, Camilla Taylor, Shelli Tollman, Chris Ulivo, Deirdre White, and Patty Wickman.
