stairway to somewhere: a soundtrack

In stairway to somewhere: a soundtrack, Thaddeus Strode’s 13th solo exhibition with neugerriemschneider, a broad palette of sources from mass media, global philosophies and the conceptualist leanings of his artistic predecessors, to film, illustration and surf culture, assemble to a painted mixtape. Life, death and rebirth, transformation and transcendence pervade his new human-scale canvases, negotiated by a flurry of protagonists and the pointed inscriptions that accompany them. An oversized model ship and symbols of the ephemeral, colored to invoke blue screens of video production, stand as ghostly, interdimensional artifacts, while an amplified guitar, activated by the artist during the opening and by visitors throughout the exhibition, textures the presentation.