Inside 'Q3,' ProblemChild Advisory's Corporate Fever Dream

“A crude account of the current state of affairs.”

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Summary

  • Conceptual curatorial project ProblemChild Advisory opens Q3, a new group exhibition, at Alyssa Davis Gallery in New York
  • Featuring work by 10 underground names, the show captures the cost of life under perpetual acceleration

As the third fiscal quarter comes to a close, ProblemChild Advisory wants us to stop and take stock of the emotional fallout left by endless cycles of production and consumption.

Staged at Alyssa Davis Gallery in New York, the Q3 group show captures the unease of this transitional moment — how it ripples and refracts into other facets of everylife life. Described by the gallery as a “surreal cocktail of brawls, shots, shadows, pixies, pixels, girls, gremlins, yogis, business deals, actors, horses, hooligans and a puppy,” the showcase brings forth a compelling body of sculpture, painting and mixed-media works in a feverish tableau of contemporary anxiety.

Featuring works by Cameron Spratley, Danka Latorre, Diego Gabaldon, Gyae Kim, In June Park, Jack Lawler, Kyle Gallagher, Leif Jones, Nina Hartmann and Sean David Morgan, Q3 assembles a cast of emerging voices exploring the contradictions of life under perpetual acceleration. Standouts on view include Jones’s “Bed bugs cure laziness (Deer 1),” a tattooed silicone deer laying at the heart of the gallery. Along the walls, Gabaldon’s “SPEEDFRAME” series pushes a study of sport into overdrive, while “Orgone Accumulator Diagram” by Hartmann brings the aesthetics of surveillance into fresh focus.

Helmed by David Welch, ProblemChild Advisory operates less as a traditional curatorial entity and more as a conceptual experiment, and with a keen eye for both established voices and underground names-to-watch, has accumulated a cult following in recent years. In Q3, the project’s “art-for-the-people” ethos takes on tangible form: a reflection on art’s uneasy entanglement with commerce, and a dispatch from the present moment — only for the cycle to repeat again.

Catch the exhibition in New York before it closes on October 19.

Alyssa Davis Gallery
171 Henry Street,
New York, NY 10002

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