And, Apollo: A Laboratory, a solo exhibition by Dean Erdmann, was on at the Vera List Center For Art and Politics at The New School, New York, running January 16 to February 11.
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With glass sculpture, mixed media and video, the work evoked cultural aspects of the Mojave desert where the artist grew up — from ATVs, the Cold War to meth use — threading a web of surprising historical and technological linkages. As the press text states: “What might seem to be unrelated histories and cultural expressions, rituals or diseases are distilled into a complex narrative that crystallizes intersections between the deeply personal and geopolitical.”**