Electric Mayhem : Caroline Wells Chandler and Jennifer Coates

In glowing, resplendent sketches, Caroline Wells Chandler and Jennifer Coates toy and goad, daring each other with a shared delight in the sticky, sloppy, and kitsch. From embellishing Matisse’s Le bonheur de vivre, 1905-1906, with sock-covered erections, to imagining Elmo and Furline Huskie as twinned testicles on a blue, cotton-ball form, Chandler and Coates stretch the figural possibilities and age-ratings of familiar cultural characters both high and low. Driving towards the pleasure of the collaborator’s laughter, Chandler and Coates’s jokes are both challenging and cheap, simultaneously nullifying the universe by...