BROKEN ARMOR

REDHOOK

REDHOOK

Karla Del Orbe

Lyla Dushas

Genna Howard

Dean Qiulin Li

James Little

Wolfgang Saker

Gregory Uzelac

Broken Armor brings together an ensemble of artists from the United States and Australia whose work probes, parodies, and punches through the sureties and tribal fortresses we construct to navigate the harsh, fleeting nature of life.

The Redhook install was executed in collaboration with Brooklyn-based Dominican photographer Karla Del Orbe. We chose to place the show in the weathered, overgrown sports fields of post-industrial Brooklyn, contrasting the sterile, elitist safehouses whitewall galleries have become. These images were all shot on film, with some even on disposable cameras, fully embracing our vulnerability to the elements, especially as artists. 

James Little 'youtu.beDQw_kHoGKic' 2022. Graphite on watercolour paper. 11.4 × 10.2 in. (29 × 26 cm.)
Lyla Dushas 'Moss On THe Garden Wall' 2023. Oil on velvet. 39.5 × 32 × 2 in (100.3 × 81.3 × 5.1 cm)
Gregory Uzelac 'No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart' 2023. Acrylic and graphite on salvaged paper. 9 × 9 in (23 × 23 cm.)
Genna Howard 'Burning Question' 2019. Pigmented plastic. 15 × 7.9 in. (38 × 20 cm.)
Dean Qiulin Li 'Snake,' 2022. Lambda c-type print on Kodak matt. 11.8 × 15.7 in. (30 × 40 cm.)
Genna Howard 'Hello, Little Girl (Wolf)' 2019. Pigmented plastic. 13 × 11 in. (33 × 28 cm.)
Install View
Gregory Uzelac 'No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart' 2023. Acrylic and graphite on salvaged paper. 9 × 9 in (23 × 23 cm.)
Dean Qiulin Li 'Snake,' 2022. Lambda c-type print on Kodak matt. 11.8 × 15.7 in. (30 × 40 cm.)
Wolfgang Saker 'Rabbit' 2023. Dye sublimated print on aluminium. 8 × 12 in. (20.3 × 30.5 cm.)
Dean Qiulin Li 'Snake,' 2022. Lambda c-type print on Kodak matt. 11.8 × 15.7 in. (30 × 40 cm.)
Wolfgang Saker 'Rabbit' 2023. Dye sublimated print on aluminium. 8 × 12 in. (20.3 × 30.5 cm.)
Genna Howard 'Burning Question' 2019. Pigmented plastic. 15 × 7.9 in. (38 × 20 cm.)
Lyla Dushas with 'Moss On THe Garden Wall' 2023. Oil on velvet. 39.5 × 32 × 2 in (100.3 × 81.3 × 5.1 cm)

Artists

KARLA DEL ORBE is a Dominican visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She is drawn (but not limited) to portraits of women. Driven by raw, daring, and spontaneous moments, she captures intimate scenarios built mostly by her and the subject only. Del Orbe works in fashion photography, but lets her fascination in life as it is carry her photographic practice. She works to capture moments, strangers, places, and all the pieces that make up day-to-day life.

karlota.myportfolio.com

Instagram: @karladelorbe

LYLA DUSHAS is a multi-disciplinary artist currently practicing across Australia.

The foundation of Dushas's work has developed from a nomadic lifestyle, encompassing observations that are formed by navigating transient relationships through the intuitive nature of adventure. Engaging with large-scale figures from life and imagination, meshing both domestic with exterior worlds, Dushas gives form to the surreality of closeness to people, places, and things that are not physically present.

IG: @lylsd_

GENNA HOWARD is a painter, tattoo artist, and ceramicist based in Brooklyn, NY. Howard’s is an intersectional approach to creating “flash,” the artwork historically designed for tattooing. They devise evocative symbols, sometimes menacing sometimes charming, but always imbued with dedication and emotional resonance. Howard received a BFA in Illustration at the School of Visual Arts in 2014 and apprenticed amongst the top artists in New York’s tattoo community, and their training and dedication is evident.

genna-howard.com

IG: @gennamhoward

DEAN QIULIN LI uses photography and photographic media to explore the relationships between people and the public and private spaces in which they live. Li's work is aesthetic anthropology. With lens, light, and shutter he studies the impact of environment on people’s identities, social behaviours, and ways of thinking.

deanqiulinli.com

IG: @deanqiulinli

JAMES LITTLE currently working in Sydney, Australia. His works are a study of "Why does the internet make me feel bad?", fantasy heroism tropes (Do heroes always have to have a big sword? Was Scar innocent?), online dating, avatarism and depictions of nature, threat, domesticality and anxiety. He utilises photorealistic drawing, painting, sculpture, 3D printing, parody and satire within his work.

james-little.com

IG: @jameslittle.inc.nyc.edu.gov.tv

WOLFGANG SAKER uses painting, technology and digital media to focus on the concept of the avatar, the shrinking difference between the corporeal and the digital, and how the absurdity of the internet is leaking into earth. Frequently incorporating figurative elements, text, and surreal nonlinear storytelling, Saker's satirical works draw upon virtual reality, social melancholia, and popular online culture. Saker's practice ultimately poses a question to the viewer: Does it matter if we are corporeal of virtual?

wolfgangsaker.com

IG: @wolfsaker

GREGORY UZELAC is an artist, writer, and academic from New York City currently working in Sydney, Australia. Uzelac completed a Bachelor of Arts from Northwestern University in 2013 focusing on screenwriting and Asian religion and postcolonial theory. In 2022 he completed a Master of Fine Arts by Research at Sydney University, where he is currently a lecturer in Studies of Religion.

guzelac.com

IG: @greguzelac