#TRACKSTARS: New End - Dangerous Times

Seven black-streaked, glitter-encrusted palettes lean--rather than hang--against the walls , propped on ashy white cinderblocks. “These aren’t paintings,” cautions Neuwirth, “they are objects.”

Each began life as something different--covered with collage or other paintings, smaller and built up, larger and hacked down--but all of them undertook a journey that ended with their complete eradication by black paint.

“This is about putting aside your ego, covering up what you made--because we don’t really own anything,” say the artists.

“There’s so much potential for meaningful communication today--we have the internet, social media--and so much of it is noise. Whatever was once underneath the black paint-whatever meaningful expression--is annihilated by the noise.”