A gallery walk-through with the artists, Bob Trotman and Jody Zellen, will be held within the Halsey’s galleries on Saturday, February 1, 2PM. 

Entitled Jody Zellen: Above the Fold and Bob Trotman: Business as Usual, both artists explore the human condition in very different ways. Zellen presents humans in her work as abstracted, nameless ciphers navigating a complex and often violent world. Through her use of one full year of the New York Times “World News” website, Zellen presents us to ourselves through the media, mediated in a variety of ways. Trotman’s approach is much more direct and less abstracted, but his sculptural works address the corporate world with all of its discontents. His larger than life human figures are suffused with dread, melancholy, or desperation, yet they are cloaked in the uniform of the powerful. Through both artists’ works, we see the de-civilizing effects of greed, power, and privilege.