GO FOR BROKE // January 31 - March 1, 2020

Opening // Friday, January 31 from 6-9p

Closing // Sunday, March 1 from 3-6p

Go For Broke

Phoebe Berglund

Grayson Cox

Scott Grodesky

Vanessa Gully Santiago

Jared Thorne

Installations by:

Madeleine Hines

Zebadiah Keneally

Good Naked (Brooklyn, NY) is pleased to present its fourth exhibition Go For Broke, opening January 31 from 6-9pm and running through March 1, 2020.

The works in this exhibition are scrappy and solid. Their subjects are resourceful and edgy. Caught in moments of near self-sabotage, they speak to desperation and salvation, getting flung, hitting bottom, and scraping by.

Phoebe Berglund​’s temporary still life will take form and rest in the freezer sans anchors/supports. This collaboration with her family of commercial fisherman on the Oregon Coast warns of climate change and an oft-neglected transformation of the fishing industry as we know it.
Grayson Cox​’s objects speak to productivity and comfort. They talk desire, fulfillment, guilt economy, and mass appeal. Their presentation plays with advertising and their material/size render them impotent/stuck.
Scott Grodesky​’s figures push/swim/drag through the sustained drone of of daily repetition. Eyes are open and inward. Bodies overlap, suspend, and merge as brains separate from flesh and watch themselves and others at a distance.
Vanessa Gully Santiago​’s paintings set the stage for noir and dissent. Her spaces are open and empty. Her objects are useful and rendered useless as figures kick around attempts to repurpose the vacuous and stir/break the system in apathy/disaffect.
Jared Thorne​’s photographs wait and watch. Their quiet is alarming. His content reveals itself slowly with tenacity and fervor. Rage and defeat sit up against a call to move and act.

Madeleine Hines​’ mazes are mysterious and haunting. They entice and catch. They are filled with the possibility of pleasure and anxiety, entrapment and play.
Zebadiah Keneally​’s drawings turn existential and absurd on their head as figures reach toward meaning and meet a flat wall. Forms fulfill our desire to believe in the illusion of potential answers and exit with a smirk and no limbs.

The exhibition is on view by appointment only.  For more information (including exact location) and images, please contact info@goodnakedgallery.com.