Some Pulp
Andy Tousignant, Ryan De Laval, Willow Gallagher, Sarah Kirby, Elberto Muller, Nan Rodriguez

Curated by Elberto Muller
July 2 - August 3, 2024

Entrance presents Some Pulp, a group exhibition showcasing works on paper by Andy Tousignant, Ryan De Laval, Nan Rodriguez, Willow Gallagher, Elberto Muller and Sarah Kirby. Both friends and artistic peers, the artists in Some Pulp are a part of the larger NYC punk scene. Their styles reflect one another and the culture of the underground in both their preoccupations and style.

The works oscillate between describing the moments of glory and mystery in our maximalist urban lives, the darkness that is laced all throughout, and the humor in the theater of the absurd. Some Pulp exposes us to art that the city could’ve made itself – fast, overwhelming, both bright and dark, experiencing the voyeur and the anonymous, strangers and strangeness, glimpses of the inner worlds within one of the most publicly dense places, and what remains in spite of - or because of? - the dominant culture’s habit of eradicating what does not fit.

Andy Tousignant (b. 1997, Texas) is a multimedia artist based in NYC. He graduated from Parsons School of Design ‘20. Tousignant’s illustrative drawings and paintings focus on the facades of city buildings and uncanny perspectives through windows and into rooms. His figurative drawings are often collaged from multiple drawings, portraying figures surrounded by a symbolism and mystery that recall the character of the city.

Ryan De Laval (b. 1987, New York) attended Laney College in Oakland, California. His body of work includes works on paper and paintings on canvas. He is an artist who epitomizes intuition, forging connections with materials on a visceral level. His rapid, bold gestures demonstrate a profound familiarity and mastery of his tools, engaging in a dialogue with past and present art movements. Recent exhibitions include Jack Hanley Gallery in New York, Public Access Gallery in New York, Dream Child in Los Angeles, CA, and Hit Gallery in San Francisco, CA.

Willow Gallagher (b. 1992, New York) works mostly with pen on paper, creating stark black and white drawings. Gallagher’s use of a meticulous repetition of unique marks creates a patterning in the composition, often depicting a proliferation of caricatures of the NYC cityscape.

Sarah Kirby (b. 2000, San Francisco) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She practices multiple artistic mediums, such as painting, weaving, felting, and illustration. Her art is concerned with showing the closeness and isolation in the parallaxes of memory. These images preserve what the mind can store in common feelings, the senses and subconscious. Sarah is influenced by artists Red Grooms and Joe Coleman for their observations of human interactions, and multimedia composition.

Elberto Muller (b. ????, Calfornia) lives mostly as a drifter. Muller’s work draws from his experiences riding freight trains, planes and autos across North America. Along with publishing multiple novels and scattering hundreds of small mosaic tile works across the continent, Muller has maintained a studio practice, creating large-scale three-dimensional mosaic tile works referencing folktales, pop-iconography and pulp sub-cultures. Elberto Muller had his solo debut at Entrance in the fall of 2023.

Nan Rodriguez (b. 1991, New York) is a self-taught artist who works primarily with paper, combining watercolor, marker, spray paint, airbrush and acrylic to create surreal and humorous works. The compositions often depict everyday objects and experiences combined to create nonsensical yet intuitive emotional landscapes.

“Some Pulp

The smell hits you on the far west side of town, coming onto Kamloops, British Colombia. Something like summer sausage, left out in the sun. The smell of pulp, or the gas released from pulp in the Kraft process, which is how paper is made.

Robert Kraft, of the Kraft macaroni empire, owns a paper processing facility in South Carolina. Local residents complain of the stench, “On date night I can’t sit in the backyard with my girlfriend” one resident complains.

Pulp, the wrong side of the tracks- even when Quentin used it to title his movie in 1994, pulp fiction was already an anachronistic term- something to do with lowbrow, detective novels, comic books, things better left for the childish side of the mind.

Some pulp, left over little flits floating
in the sweet tangy orange of a cardboard container of juice. It’s all there, the sweet and sour, stuck in your teeth, the back of your throat- sweet art for sweet people, works on paper, made of pulp- that’s all.”

Curator’s note by Elberto Muller

For inquiries, email louis@entrance.nyc