PLEASURE DOME
April 10 through May 15
Michael Bevilacqua
Cecily Brown
Inka Essenhigh
Jason Fox
Richard Kern
Cathy de Monchaux
Takashi Murakami
Fred Tomaselli
Marnie Weber
Jessica Fredericks Gallery is pleased to present PLEASURE DOME, a group exhibition featuring new work by nine artists: Michael Bevilacqua, Cecily Brown, Inka Essenhigh, Jason Fox, Richard Kern, Cathy de Monchaux, Takashi Murakami, Fred Tomaselli, and Marnie Weber.
Taking its title from Kenneth Anger’s 1954 film The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, the exhibition brings together artists who construct images that feel mythic without relying on traditional mythologies, narratives, or archetypes. Like Anger’s saturated tableaux, where color, ritual, and performance create meaning independent of story, the works in PLEASURE DOME derive their power from internal logics rather than inherited symbolism.
The artists here move past fable and folklore altogether. Instead, they generate their own cosmologies: sensuous, epic, and often surreal, but grounded in wholly personal systems of imagery. The exhibition proposes that mythic weight in contemporary art can arise not only from narrative but from atmosphere, color, intensity, and the strange coherence of invented worlds.
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11am to 6pm. For further information and/or photographs please contact the gallery by telephone at (212) 633-6555 or fax at (212) 367-9502.