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In collaboration with Marisa Newman Projects, New Discretions is pleased to present Exit Wounds a two-person exhibition with artists Stephen Irwin and Phoenix Lindsey-Hall.

Irwin and Lindsey-Hall both explore aspects of the human body and its ultimate erasure.

Irwin’s series of either erased or marked over found images is haunting and beautiful. Using steel-wool, astringents, bleach, whiteout - Irwin rubs and abrades or marks over pictures from vintage pornography magazines. The reconfigured image leaves parts of the body intact encircling the hand, chest, face, genitalia in a manner …