
Theo Rosenblum
“Raw Deal,” Theo Rosenblum’s second solo exhibition, is a journey into an enchanted forest of kitsch, craft, and the adolescent mind. Rosenblum’s creations depict fairy-tale grotesqueries in chaos: a large bear escapes his shackles, violently thrashing through fields of attack dogs and popcorn, while the prophetic taproot in King Carrot (all works cited, 2010) ominously greets viewers on his sculpted, faux bois throne.
Contextualizing Rosenblum’s sculptural tableaux are two disparate and methodologically conflicting series of paintings. Several large-scale works, whose bubbling fluorescent green