David Ford's multimedia installation White Like Me incorporates the florid magic realism of his large-scale paintings, the incisive wit of his photography, and the unpredictability of his performance art. Against a backdrop of fantastical images of celebrity egomania/delusion — Tom Cruise gazing longingly at the night sky, for instance — and an architectural installation evoking the quaint vacuousness of mainstream American culture, Ford deploys a troop of "performers" acting as a militia. The piece's many contradictions combine to illustrate the plight of the skeptical patriot in political dismay.

—Shana Nys Dambrot, Flavorpill

Provocateur and pied-piper of the burgeoning Kansas
City art scene, David Ford will present White
Like Me, his first New York solo exhibition.

DAVID FORD

HEADSetera is an intimate show of heady
interplay between three seasoned artists—
Peter Drake, Laurence Hegarty and Mark
Mennin—whose work couldn't be more
different.

Those who follow the goings on of the art
world will no doubt recognize the names of
one or another of these artists, as each is
preeminently accomplished in his own
arena. Unlikely, however, you will know all
three. Their fans don't often mingle.

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