Jennifer Baahng Gallery invites you to a discussion about America — past, present, and future. Artists R.C. Baker and Sharon Butler will delve into the ways their work grapples with today’s digital miasma, as well as what culture critic Greil Marcus famously termed “the old, weird, America.” In Butler’s Idiomerica series, painted pixels collide with inkjet prints of household tools, layered images that conjure the capitalist sprawl of the suburbs. In his series The Terminal Century, Baker’s psychedelically bright, painted collages imagine how the Blues and the Bomb bookended history’s most — at least, so far — violent century.

In all of the works on view in this group show, PITCHES & SCRIPTS, beauty blooms from dross and calamity alike in narratives of power, race, politics, solitude, and entropy. Come and ask questions, and see if the artists’ answers are as trenchant as the works on the wall.

R.C. Baker is the Editor-in-Chief of the Village Voice and is a Visiting Artist in the MFA Studio Art program at NYU Steinhardt. The founder of the blogazine Two Coats of Paint, Sharon Butler is Adjunct Faculty in the MFA program at the University of Connecticut.

Seating for this event is limited and available on a first-come-first-serve basis.