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THE NEW YORK TIMES

Published: April 8, 2005
'Fearless Vampire Killers'
Casey Kaplan
416 West 14th Street, Chelsea
Through April 16

Casey Kaplan will be leaving 14th Street for greener Chelsea pastures this
spring, and he's getting a stimulating send-off in this group show organized
by one of his artists, Nathan Carter. Like the title, with its mingled
references to 1960's film comedy and Charles Manson, the show's tone is
light and dark. Jennifer Cohen contributes a watercolor of a peppy
harlequin diamond pattern done in funereal black and gray. A photographic
piece by Claudia Mendoza turns a sweet old masterish painting of a princely
child into a gothic vision of a ghost with glowing hands. Edward Opara
scales up a teddy bear image to monumental scale, while Amanda Matles turns
the Chrysler Building into a half-collapsed soft sculpture.
While many young artists are working small now, most here work big. Kevin
Ford combines elements from various make-your-own-dinosaur modeling kits
into one huge apocalyptic beast. A floating spaceship sculpture by Virginia
Poundstone, a cross between the Hindenburg and one of Andy Warhol's floating
pillows, doubles as a giant piñata spilling party favors.

Most ambitiously, Marie Lorenz has constructed her own private Matterhorn
with a tunnel of love. It is one of the show's two highlights, the other
being a mural by Jedediah Caesar made up of posters designed by nearly 20
other artists, among them Anna Sew Hoy, Drew Dominick, Shannon Ebner, John
Espinosa, Uudam Nguyen and Sarah Vanderlip. Mr. Caesar's piece amounts to
an artist-curator's show within the show, and with its combination of cartoons
and oblique political protest, one every bit as mixed in its messages.

HOLLAND COTTER

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