Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York presents “Chicken Little and the Culture of Fear” by artist Nancy Chunn from September 10th, 2016 through November 12th, 2016.The show exhibits Nancy Chunn’s site-specific painting installation, depicting a folk tale about a paranoid fowl. The story follows Chicken Little struck on her head by a falling TV, and goes through a number of events like landing inside a jail or to a hospital and ultimately on her quest to reach the king. Now in the folk tale, she either reaches the king, or get lured to the den of a fox, and gets consumed. In Chunn’s narrative, they are actually consumed by ‘Fox News’, where Chicken Little become one of the blonde anchorwoman. The exhibition is Nancy Chunn’s take on the media overdrive post 9/11, terming the broadcast as hilarious and idiotic. Professor Barry Glassner termed it as a ‘Culture of Fear’ that went full of stories about immigrants, welfare mothers, kidnapping etc. which Nancy Chunn decided to overlook to maintain her sanity and embarked on a baroque, obsessive, labor intensive process. The exhibition contains hundreds of canvases held together by 11 aesthetically pleasing, painted amoeba shapes. Each wall of the gallery details a specific category of fears: garden symbolized environmental issues, bathroom refers to household dangers, kitchen suggests food dangers, bedroom signifies childhood nightmares, road refers to road rage, hospital refers to medical issues, diner signifies issues regarding wage system, poortown refers to the great recession and ‘Fox News’ became self-explanatory.Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek of the exhibition.
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