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David Trinidad is the author of numerous books of poetry. A native of Los Angeles, he currently lives in Chicago.

John O’Connor encrypts and encodes the complexity of our moment into ciphers of drawing. His exhibition Man Bites Dog Bites Man at Pierogi Gallery in collaboration with L Space feels akin to listening to the radio on a late-night drive, like O’Connor’s practice is tuned to that space on the dial between radio towers, where the drift from one message cuts in across another as magnetic fields begin to shift.

Extraordinary artist, beloved friend, fierce comrade sister.

Anyone familiar with Paul Pfeiffer’s pioneering moving-image work knows that he has been out ahead of “the culture” for more than twenty years. Yet the manipulations and labors he thought to exert on at-one-time recalcitrant film and video frames have now been incorporated into platform and persuasion technologies that have touched us all, whether we’re aware of it or not.

In my larger body of work, “One Should Not Look At Anything,” I have explored the written word of Wilde’s poetry through highly constructed portraits and still lives made in my studio.