Event Details - Mark Earnhart "Kayfabe"

Kayfabe is carny terminology meaning "be fake," in the sense that spectators need not be in on the truth of the illusion or hustle.  The term was adopted by professional wrestling as a policy for wrestlers to not break character in order to maintain the claim of genuine sport.

Inspired by such examples of cultural fascination with the faked, Mark Earnhart's solo exhibition examines the interplay between the artificial and the genuine in commonplace circumstances and in common objects and materials. A series of minimal objects and sculptural installations respond to, and challenge, accepted ideas of the familiar and fantastical.