Theaster Gates and the Black Monks: Amalgam Vinyl Will Sheldon Balloon Dog is an aloof

Balloon Dog is an aloof sentinel cloaked in nostalgia

from Donatello and Constantin Brancusi to Japanese gardens and Machu Picchu

formally and conceptually reimagining established aesthetics and techniques by repurposing multiple woodblocks already carved for earlier ukiyo-e prints

the striking sculpture transforms when viewed from different angles

but also distant memories of the Alpine landscape of his youth

Theaster Gates and the Black Monks: Amalgam Vinyl Will Sheldon Balloon Dog is an aloofProduced by James William Blades, Amalgam is composed of eleven songs that provide the soundtrack to Theaster Gatess film Dance of Malaga (2019), which premiered at the artists solo exhibition Amalgam at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, in 2018. Inspired by the forced relocation of mixed race people from Malaga Island in Maine, the exhibition explored the fraught interweaving of race, territory, and inequality. The album is pressed on two heavyweight 180