XX Perfect Souls — Bad Water

XX Perfect Souls, installation view

Milano Chow, Geranium I of III, Geranium II of III & Geranium III of III, 2022, graphite on paper courtesy of the artist and Chapter NY

J. Parker Valentine, Untitled, 2022, two lassos

Jenni Crain, Ann, 2020, essay & Ann Gillen, DOUBLING, 1973, triangle from a geometric series, marine plywood, Retrospective at Wave Hill 1977, Riverdale, NYC
complied together as an offset printed document on newsprint

Rubens Ghenov, Ghosts on an Afternoon Shelf, Dusk Minus Blue, 2019, acrylic and xerox transfer on linen

Rubens Ghenov, Ghosts on an Afternoon Shelf, Dusk Minus Blue, 2019, acrylic and xerox transfer on linen

Michael Kennedy Costa, animal, 2022, colored pencil on taped paper

Sarah Mcmenimen, Simuated Thunderstorms, 2020, cast and welded aluminum

Sarah Mcmenimen, Simuated Thunderstorms, 2020, cast and welded aluminum

Kristen Dickson-Okuda, Petals that Whisper, 2022, silk taffeta and 24 gauge wire

Kristen Dickson-Okuda and Sean Macalister, installation view

Sean Macalister, Exhibition: broth, erased magazine cover (both sides)

Strauss Bourque-LaFrance, installation view

Strauss Bourque-LaFrance, Marker sketches for pattern works, 2020

Strauss Bourque-LaFrance, Marker sketches for pattern works, 2020

XX Perfect Souls, installation view

Anna Rosen, Scepter, 2021, acrylic on rice paper & Bird, 2021, acrylic on rice paper

Sarah Mcmenimen, Sickle, 2022, cast and welded aluminum

KB Jones, Katharine Taylor Perkins, 2022, flashe on linen

XX Perfect Souls, installation view

And in the end
The love you take
Is equal to the love you make.

“The End” John Lennon and Paul McCartney

XX Perfect Souls is an exhibition by XX artists presenting themselves for themselves and for others. This is the nature of
the self portraits in XX Perfect Souls.

XX Perfect Souls maintain their perfection by sharing themselves. XX Perfect Souls share themselves as a way to mirror
the perfection of the other. XX Perfect Souls share with, for, and to each other so that we all might be seen more and
shared more by each other. XX Perfect Souls Are Never Alone.

This is a movement of love within oneself that moves out into the collective and back again. That movement is presented
for you here at Bad Water in XX Perfect Souls.

Like all capitalist constructions, the notion of self care must be vanquished and replaced with its rightful and righteous
precedent : self love.

XX Perfect Souls love themselves and see life as a living dream. For XX Perfect Souls there is no distinction between the
sleeping world of darkness and dreams and the waking world of light and dreams. In traditional Jungian dream analysis, we
must consider every drempt woman to be the feminine in us, every man to be the masculine in us. We double ourselves to
see both our shadow and our perfection, our complete and utter wholeness.

In a lecture given to a crowd of delighted listeners in the great state of a California in the year 1990, Terence McKenna, the
great prophet of plant medicines of all forms, declared his program for the artist:

"Art’s task is to save the soul of mankind. Anything less is a dithering when Rome burns."

It is quite a statement, but he doesn't stop there. In that same talk, McKenna also says that our consciousness is so great
and so vast that a single mind cannot contain it.

It cannot be contained.

This is the simple fact.

If you can be your consciousness and see your consciousness, you don’t need to really say or do much more than that.

This is the other simple fact of the work presented by XX Perfect Souls.

The work is all here.

We have a moral obligation to speak of this love inside us, to share it and spread it and hold it up as truth, as artists, as
friends, and as human beings. If we fulfill this obligation, we will continue to live as XX Perfect Souls.

Morgan Canavan, Ben Estes, Marisa Takal
More Coming Back & More Returning
May 5 - June 11, 2023

Sylvie Hayes-Wallace
Center of the Universe
August 5 - September 18, 2022

Amanda Horowitz
Bad Water, True West or Between Myself the Crickets and the Coyote
performed by Sophia Cleary and Ada Friedman
July 14 & July 15, 2022

Suzanna Zak
Coming Home to the Ice Age
opening May 13 - June 24, 2022

Morgan Canavan, Ben Estes, Marisa Takal More Coming Back & More ReturningMay 5 - June 11, 2023

Sylvie Hayes-Wallace Center of the UniverseAugust 5 - September 18, 2022 Amanda HorowitzBad Water, True West or Between Myself the Crickets and the Coyoteperformed by Sophia Cleary and Ada FriedmanJuly 14 & July 15, 2022

Suzanna ZakComing Home to the Ice Ageopening May 13 - June 24, 2022

Morgan Canavan, Ben Estes, Marisa Takal
More Coming Back & More Returning
May 5 - June 11, 2023

Sylvie Hayes-Wallace
Center of the Universe
August 5 - September 18, 2022

Amanda Horowitz
Bad Water, True West or Between Myself the Crickets and the Coyote
performed by Sophia Cleary and Ada Friedman
July 14 & July 15, 2022

Suzanna Zak
Coming Home to the Ice Age
opening May 13 - June 24, 2022