"Hair and Mushrooms, Gnarly Paint and Smooth Pours"

I don’t recall ever thinking about Cousin Itt, the hairy creature that appeared in the TV show, The Addams Family, while looking at work in an art gallery. What prompted me to dig up a pleasantly absurd memory from my absurdly unpleasant adolescence was a bronze sculpture aptly titled “It” (2004), by Carl D’Alvia. “It” is included in the exhibition, CarlJackieSteveMichelle, at Helena Anrather (June 29 – August 5, 2017). The fact that you are reminded of a TV show popular more than half a century ago, after ascending the stairs of a building without an elevator on a hot summer day, speaks to the surrealism of everyday life as a way of addressing the waves of disenchantment constantly washing over us.