• Sydney Shen, Opera is a Bad Influence, 2017. Installation view: “A Most Filial Imprint,” Aike Dellarco, Shanghai, 2017. Courtesy Aike Dellarco, Shanghai

    Sydney Shen, Opera is a Bad Influence, 2017. Installation view: “A Most Filial Imprint,” Aike Dellarco, Shanghai, 2017. Courtesy Aike Dellarco, Shanghai

Exhibition

Sydney Shen

30 Apr 2019 – 28 Jul 2019

Regular hours

Tuesday
11:00 – 18:00
Wednesday
11:00 – 18:00
Thursday
11:00 – 21:00
Friday
11:00 – 18:00
Saturday
11:00 – 18:00
Sunday
11:00 – 18:00

Cost of entry

General $18
Seniors $15
Visitors with Disabilities (care partner free of charge) $15
Students $12
Members Free
15–18 Free
14 and under (accompanied by an adult) Free

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  • From the East Side of Manhattan Take the downtown 6 train to Spring Street. Exit the station and walk one block north on Lafayette Street to Prince Street. Turn right and proceed until Prince Street ends four blocks later at Bowery. From the West Side of Manhattan Take the downtown N or R train to Prince Street. Exit the station and proceed east on Prince Street for six blocks to Bowery. You may also take the downtown D or F train to Broadway/ Lafayette. Walk three blocks east to Bowery and turn right two blocks to Prince Street. From Brooklyn Take the Manhattan-bound F train to 2nd Avenue. Exit at Houston Street and walk one block west to Bowery. Turn left, and proceed two blocks south to Prince Street. From Queens Take the Manhattan-bound F train to 2nd Avenue. Exit at Houston Street and walk one block west to Bowery. Turn left, and proceed two blocks south to Prince Street.
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Sydney Shen’s (b. 1989, Woodbridge, NJ) objects and installations probe primal realms to invoke scenes of abject horror.

About

Shen’s work draws from a range of historical and contemporary sources, from medieval accounts of the Bubonic plague and traditional Chinese opera to videogames, ’90s slasher films, and the darkest recesses of the web. By anachronistically combining these disparate areas of obsessive research, Shen creates narratives that tangle the relationship between fiction and reality. The artist Frankensteins organic materials—including aromatics from traditional Chinese and Western medicine, wax, human and animal remains, hay, and insect larvae—to create visceral environments that revel in terror and awe.

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