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The 39-year-old explains the overall concept of A Cold Sweat. “We set out to put together a theme of anxiety in spooky, fearful artworks and people really responded with some interesting anxieties,” the curator says. “Lots to do with what’s going on in the world right now: pandemic, climate change, racism. There are so many things you get anxious about, you don’t even want to leave the house sometimes. But we’d love it if you came down.”
Having said this, creeping through the show, it’s not an overtly political vibe, having more of an updated CHED Haunted House feel. “We also have some monsters that are built with pumpkins, more typical Halloween fare, modified and usurped to become these weirdo art projects.”
The artists behind it all are Andrew Benson, Breanna Barrington + Micah Haykowsky, Deirdre McCleneghan + Char L. Hunt, Eszter Rosta, Hailey Brancato, Jackie Huskisson, Madeline LeBlanc, Madison Dewar, Matthew Lapierre, Nickelas Smokey Johnson, Ryland Fortie, Sanaa Humayun and Shanell B. Papp, each with an interesting twist on the graveyard discomfort we summon every year.
“We even have projections on the wall that are distorted frames from Nosferatu,” says Teeuwsen. “And it changes a lot from daytime to nighttime – you can’t even really see some of the work till the sun goes down.” Saturday’s sunset will be at 6:32 p.m., P.S. — the opening event starts at noon.
Lowlands’ successful first show, Castles of Butter, was a direct response to the often overwhelming pandemic reality of a world of decreasing guarantees.
