An unsettling look at the emotional cost of life under perpetual acceleration.
A Surreal Take on the Modern Work Cycle
As the third fiscal quarter winds down, conceptual curatorial project ProblemChild Advisory is asking viewers to pause — and confront the psychic toll of endless productivity. Its latest group exhibition, “Q3,” now on view at Alyssa Davis Gallery in New York, translates the language of corporate life into a dizzying artistic hallucination.
A Showcase of Chaos and Commentary
Described by the gallery as “a surreal cocktail of brawls, shots, shadows, pixies, pixels, girls, gremlins, yogis, business deals, actors, horses, hooligans and a puppy,” the show unfolds as a kinetic study of contemporary anxiety. The exhibition features ten rising artists, including Cameron Spratley, Danka Latorre, Diego Gabaldon, Gyae Kim, In June Park, Jack Lawler, Kyle Gallagher, Leif Jones, Nina Hartmann, and Sean David Morgan.
Highlights include Jones’s Bed bugs cure laziness (Deer 1) — a tattooed silicone deer sprawled at the gallery’s center — and Gabaldon’s SPEEDFRAME series, a warped exploration of sports and spectacle. Hartmann’s Orgone Accumulator Diagram reframes the aesthetics of surveillance, blurring the lines between control and observation.
The Ethos Behind the Madness
Helmed by David Welch, ProblemChild Advisory operates less as a traditional curatorial platform and more as a conceptual experiment — one with a devoted underground following. In “Q3,” its irreverent “art-for-the-people” ethos manifests as both critique and confession: a reflection on art’s uneasy entanglement with commerce, and a reminder that the cycle of production never really ends.
