Opens July 11th at 8PMJustin has not read more than a few pages of theory since graduating a couple years ago from art school, oh he bought two books of it alright, curious about phenomenology he acquired a collection of essays by Heidegger. The other eagerly purchased book was titled provocatively After Theory. After having glanced occasionally and increasingly wearily at the title for a few days he pushed it off of the edge of the studio couch, and began to paint. The next few days included considerable amounts of continuous staring at blank canvas, furrowing of brow and skipping of songs heard one too many times.One such day included the collection of a large mud spattered slab of glass from the back alley. Justin rinsed it off in the paint stained sink down the hall, carefully tapped all the edges with white duct tape, and put it on top of a rickety wood table against the left hand wall; the making of a new pallet. Then Justin napped, poorly, on the afore mentioned dingy studio couch backing the plywood door of his small studio, the couch unappealing with it’s missing vertical cushions. Rolling off the couch onto the floor he half stood with his hands and feet on wooden boards supporting him and his butt in the air completing the apex of this awkward maneuver. Looking backwards through the gap between his legs he caught sight of the neglected book, it’s upside down title had grown dusty, it seemed to him to now read as, Art After Theory. Blood began to pool in Justin’s head making his face hot and his thinking slow. As his neck began to ache he stood suddenly fully upright, swaying as his vision faded in an out Justin said to himself "yes, there is".If there is any specific kernel of information that Justin would impose on you the reader, the viewer, it is this: It is said the Albert Einstein once stated that the most important question you could ask yourself was, "Is the universe friendly?". To which Janet McNally likely would have answered -"Good question, but would it not be fair to ask, ‘Is the universe?’. Actually come to think of it, if the question is meant to reveal something of the nature of life, or the experience of it, would it not be useful to restrain yourself from asking that question at all? It might make sense to stop at ‘Is’ really. Well, probably before that even, by asking the question in the first place you risk setting up the only outcome, the mind will attempt to create an answer to satisfy the asking, and as useful as that ball of synapses is it’s going to mess it up I bet. The mind will cull it’s response from the only place it can, from assumptions and parroted knowledge, a fascinating but possibly contrived way to experience life."Alexandro Jodorowsky, Aldous Huxley, Haruki Murakami, Henry David Thoreau, Dave Williams, Dante, Philip Glass and Hafiz walk into a bar...Music in the back Starting at 9:30pmMaria in the Shower Aja Rose Bond Red Clover Blackberry Wood