P·P·O·W is pleased to present Rhizome St. / Fugue Avenue, mosie romney’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Working in the space between figuration and abstraction, romney uses painting as a portal through which to explore themes of self-perception and polychronic time. Often beginning with collage, romney stages fantasy worlds that disrupt our notions of reality, memory, and symbolic order. An introduction to a new body of work, Rhizome St. / Fugue Avenue immerses the viewer in an imaginary place of both rupture and renewal. With a new cast of characters, romney envisions the psychology of alienation and placeless-ness, taking the viewer on a flight of the unreasonable towards spiritual transformation.

In Rhizome St. / Fugue Avenue, romney searches for footing within a landscape of unreality, mistranslation, and disordered perception. Imbedded symbols, text, and talismans both direct and evade as the line between enlightenment and lunacy blur. In Explode, 2023, stars circle around a central figure’s disembodied head, recalling either a saintly halo or a loony toons signifier for dizziness, often in the aftershock of blunt force trauma.

Together, the works within Rhizome St. / Fugue Avenue represent fragments of a fantasy world in which romney intentionally surrenders to the rough texture of life and searches for unity within the self, ultimately making a friend of impermanence.

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