On January 30th new work by Purdy Eaton opens at Nancy Hoffman Gallery, continuing through March 14. Entitled Eat and Live. Eat and Die.; Eaton’s upcoming exhibition is a nod to Bruce Nauman’s One Hundred Live and Die. Eat and Live, Eat and Die; the essence of all life: plants, animals, humans, kings, queens, and cockroaches are all bound to this ethos. This, like Nauman’s other phrases, Feel …
On January 30th new work by Purdy Eaton opens at Nancy Hoffman Gallery, continuing through March 14. Entitled Eat and Live. Eat and Die.; Eaton’s upcoming exhibition is a nod to Bruce Nauman’s One Hundred Live and Die. Eat and Live, Eat and Die; the essence of all life: plants, animals, humans, kings, queens, and cockroaches are all bound to this ethos. This, like Nauman’s other phrases, Feel and Live, Feel and Die, is simultaneously fatalistic and equalizing. The chaos of politics, climate volatility, and random violence is rightfully fear inducing and overwhelming, yet there is something …
