Adair Peck, Thomas Pomarico & Bruna Massadas
Last Generation
Say no to Homogeny Monotony.
Bozeman, 2022
“We are probably one of the last generations of Homo sapiens.” — Yuval Noah Harari
If anyone were to mistakenly think that the above quote references our species' impending doom given the state of our planet, may we redirect and assure you that, in fact, it alludes to the biological extinction of our species as we know it through the inextricable and exponential growth of technology.
We are better without an edit button.Adair Peck, Thomas Pomarico and Bruna Massadas are featured in a group exhibition with paintings, etchings and woodblock prints that by virtue of their choice of medium, alone, contradict the infiltration and trajectory of technology in their practices. These works laud our wonderfully diverse, imperfect species and depict our sometimes brutal, sometimes enlightened affectations of self — for what is beheld by the artist is informed by what we try to hide. This exhibition is a beautiful sayonara to Homo sapiens, as we knew them, through the eyes of artists living through their demise.
Three figurative voices, one analog farewell.
Adair Peck's hand-painted woodblock prints and etchings carry decades of figurative observation — commuters, cocktail hours, brides and rivalries rendered with an incisive, unsentimental line. Thomas Pomarico's oils meet the present moment head-on: techno boys, red ladies, and MFA sculptors painted at confrontational scale. Bruna Massadas' acrylics distill figures into saturated, tender icons.
Together their work celebrates a wonderfully diverse, imperfect species — using techniques and materiality with origins well before the edit button.