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Something feels out-of-place in drafting a formal press release for Nicasio Fernandez's forthcoming exhibition at Harper’s Apartment, Working Through It. Not least because Harper himself has continually expressed an allergy to the canned and lifeless prose of such statements. It's really the innate nature of Nicasio's studio practice that wards off the gallery system's formulaic proceduralism. The level of comic absurdity in his subject matter demands something other than that, like how a joke requires a riveting lead-up rather than dry explanation. What I'd like to offer …