Banks Violette, the artist responsible for the somewhat mind-blowing salt church installation at the Whitney in 2005 is doing his solo-show thing at Team Gallery.

From the release:

Sculptor Banks Violette has always referred to his drawings as “film cells from the world’s slowest movie.” As with the cinema, meaning does not adhere solely to individual images but rather to their accretion over time. Viewed singly, these exquisitely rendered pictures seem miraculous transfigurations of realism, but when seen in groups they form a continuous landscape of memory, regret and melancholy.

The iconography on which Violette built this show includes the ace of spades, a grinning skull from a B-movie campaign, a famous Vietnam-era image of human suffering, a roadside death shrine, discarded party balloons, a theater spotlight, and the Crimson Ghost from the 1940s Republic film serial. When taken together, the drawings touch on themes of redemption and faith, death and transformation.

The show runs from May 7th - June 20th. Opening’s tonight. Definitely worth stopping by.

Banks Violette: Not Yet Titled
Team Gallery
83 Grand Street, NY
Tuesday thruough Saturday, 10AM - 6PM

via TWBE