RUBBER FACTORY
new york city
rubberfactory.nyc
@rubberfactorynyy / hello@rubber-factory.info / Future Fair Voices: Rubber Factory / Artsy
For Future Fair, the artists Ranee Henderson, Lyndon Barrois Jr and Jeffrey Meris grapple with the scarred, labored body. Ranee’s paintings are splice transfigured bodies with themes of inequality and an eerie apocalyptic backdrop. While Lyndon’s work draws heavily from advertisements exoticizing minority bodies, inverting the gaze in the process. Jeffrey’s sculptures and drawings are in a state of flux, always changing and deteriorating, focusing our attention on the states of entropy around us.
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RUBBER FACTORY is a Contemporary Art gallery in the Lower East Side of New York City. The gallery has a program centered on diversity, opacity and the presentation of parallel histories. The gallery draws its name from the founder, Mike Tan’s family business in Malaysia and is loosely tied to the gallery’s interest in diasporic ideas, vernacular materials and generational memory. From Incan quipus or ancient Chinese poetry to 1980s LGBTQ porn magazines, shows at the gallery have sought to expand upon master narratives in Contemporary Art.
As a space interested in artists operating on the peripheries of the art world, themes of abstraction and resistance have featured heavily in recent exhibitions. In particular, how do oppressed bodies cloaked by systemic invisibility defy representation and how might abstraction be a part of self-historicization and world building.