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A third features a machine-gun-toting Queen Elizabeth and her two corgis standing over a dead man.
All this exists at a remove from the art world.
When I told a close friend I was reviewing Goldmans show, she said, Why?
But, of course, there is a long lineage of artists working in wee spaces.
Lori Nix creates mad slum scenes, destroyed libraries, and postapocalyptic living rooms.
Janet Cardiff has included models of haunted houses in her elaborate exhibitions.
Goldmans grotesque scenes are often set in subtle locations.
One Die-o-rama features a man taking a picture of a woman posing topless in disheveled woods.
Im skeptical when things getreallybloody.
These pieces spill over into farce, melodrama, parody.
Its like the movieThe Menu.There are decapitations, buried bodies, pools of blood everywhere.
I also dont love the way the viewer is held at a distance by plexiglass encasements.
These are works that make us feel a true American horror story.
