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Rebecca Reeves and Gregory Coates at Soft Machine Gallery in Allentown

By pairing two artists who couldn’t be more dissimilar — Rebecca Reeves and Gregory Coates — The Soft Machine Gallery‘s Eva Di Orio provokes discussion of permission, control, property and ownership, specifically by focusing on the tangible nature of these subjects. The Allentown gallery is enjoying its third month in its giant new industrial space. Opening night, goose down from Coates’s installation “Stage” had drifted into the hallways, blurring the boundary between his room and the other artist’s. The shiny bits of animal beauty crushed under winter boots signaled that his newly-installed sculpture was already beginning to decay. Rebecca Reeves’s ... More » »