Wild Horses

Alessandra Exposito's My Love Story opens this week at Mixed Greens in NYC. Exposito's work incorporates her long-standing fascination with trophy animals and mounted game. Instead of using traditional sporting game, she chooses farm animals and beloved pets—such as chickens or cats—that lack associations with rugged masculinity. She uses paint, rhinestones, studs and sculpted antlers to elevate their skulls into powerful fetish objects. For this exhibition, she focuses solely on the horse, an animal with complicated and opposing associations: domesticated and wild, leisure and work, the object of affection of both cowboys and little girls. If you liked the My Little Pony artist project, consider this the grown up version.

Thursday, November 13th from 6-8pm
Mixed Greens
531 W. 26th Street