Ghost Town Reprise

ODETTA Gallery founder and curator Ellen Hackl Fagan expands the concepts in a liminal group exhibition at the LIC-A Art Space in Long Island City. This meditation on abandoned, vacant, or deserted places and objects evokes profound feelings of desolation, melancholy, and nostalgia. Part homage to overlooked remnants of the past and part cautionary tale about transience and neglect, the artworks invite viewers to reflect on familiar signs, surfaces, and locations encountered during travels and in everyday life.

The pieces transform the ordinary into a rich tapestry of personal and collective memory, expanding the endless scroll of possible narratives hidden within the mundane.

"The attraction I personally have to these works is about a deep wistfulness for the remnants of the ghosts of the past — captured in the cruddy, faded colors, peeling paint, and shattered glass. I have a long-standing fascination with the Moderne Design of the 1930s through the 1960s, evident in both the architecture and the bold lettering on these old storefronts and signs, which once signaled velocity, ambition, and effortless style. What's left behind is both sad and undeniably beautiful." — Ellen Hackl Fagan, Curator

Guest artists Patrick Sansone and Richard Klein document the emptiness and decay found in iconic roadside signs, forlorn window displays, and transient commercial enterprises through photography and assemblage.

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