Downtown art stars DAN COLEN & NATE LOWMAN unveiled their eye-popping collaborative slacker deconstructionist extravaganza of an art exhibition, “Wet Pain” late last month at the prestigious MACCARONE GALLERY and for better or worse, it stands as a testament to the state of the burgeoning downtown art scene as it looks today. Loaded with heavy doses of young male angst and de rigueur dirtied up found object installations—including funky found T-shirts, car rims, advertising imagery and sex toys—alongside more formal graphic works, the exhibition is a less dire installation than Colen’s recent shredded phone book & graffiti construction at Deitch Projects but a distinctly ephemeral assemblage nonetheless. The bit of unexplained “Odd Couple”-esque dramatic narrative reproduced below that served as the show’s manifesto only adds to the mystique for the headscratchers in the crowd. You’ve got till April 26th to see it in person, meanwhile, HAVE A LOOK: Read the rest of this entry »