Appetite for Destruction

The Wassaic Project’s 9th Annual Summer Exhibition takes its title from Robert William’s 1978 painting, Appetite for Destruction, as well as the 1987 album by the band Guns N Roses. The exhibition includes 56 artists, 45 of whom are Wassaic Artist Residency Alumni, all of whom have lived and made art in Wassaic over the past eighteen months.

Appetite for Destruction represents a broad survey of contemporary emerging artists, and focuses on their interpretations of the untamed natural world, constructed landscapes, and human-made environment, both real and virtual.

The exhibition features major installations by Paul Outlaw and Jen Catron, Meghan Grubb, Jessica Machacek, Natalie Baxter, Sabrina Barrios, Holden Brown, Genevieve Lowe, J.D. Fontanella in the stairwell shaft, Chris Victor, Lily Dithrich, and David Grainger on the first and seventh floors. Grainger began working on the elements of his installation as an Artist-in-Residence at Wassaic in 2011.

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