Current Exhibition
CURATED BY PHONG BUI & CAL MCKEEVER IN LOVING MEMORY OF PHYLLIDA BARLOW (1944–2023)

SINGING IN UNISON, PART 9: PETER ACHESON & GRET STERRETT SMITH - 522 W 19th Street, New York

April 11, 2024 to May 18, 2024
SLAG&RX and Rail Curatorial Projects is proud to present the ninth installment of “Singing in Unison: Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity to Destroy,” a multi-venue series of exhibitions that aims to foster unity in light of our recent social political climate. Singing in Unison, Part 9, in collaboration with Rail Curatorial Projects, is presenting a selection of paintings by Peter Acheson in dialogue with sculptures by Gret Sterrett Smith. Both artists are products of countercultural movements that reject American jingoism and consumerism, and have shared a lifelong interest in the Jungian theory of the collective unconscious, considering alchemy’s dual nature—the chemical and mystical—which has shaped their lives. Though they each have deeply contemplated in different ways the visionary lineage that can be traced back to the works of Carl Jung, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Robert Duncan, Jess, Diane di Prima, James Hillman, Michael Heizer, Gillian Jagger, Martin Puryear to Ron Gorchov, Ursula von Rydingsvard, and Bill Jensen, both Acheson and Smith yield a similar affinity in respect to their pictorial processes.
Past Exhibitions