Greased
Tyler Stoll
August 5 - 27, 2023
Opening Reception
Saturday, August 5, 2023
5:00–8:00pm
Gallery Hours
Saturdays - Sundays, 12-5pm

In his solo exhibition, Tyler Stoll asks the question: What if the timeless 1978 musical film Grease was reshot, but the role of Danny Zuko was played by a homemade cardboard cutout of John Travolta that slowly disintegrates throughout the film, leaving behind only a pile of pulp?
Incorporating sculpture, performance, and writing, Stoll (and friends) revive the iconic leather-clad heartbreaker to test the durability of normative, nostalgic masculinities, while offering dissolution as an alternate emancipatory narrative.
The work is part of a larger project that revolves around a manifesto Stoll is writing, titled the future is flaccid, which develops the material conditions and formal qualities of flaccidity as a tool to undermine the phallus and the systems of domination it upholds.

Greased, 2023, exhibition installation view

Greased, 2023, exhibition installation view

Greased, 2023, exhibition installation view

Greased, 2023, exhibition installation view

Greased, 2023, exhibition installation view

Greased, 2023, exhibition installation view

Greased, 2023, exhibition installation view

Greased, 2023, exhibition installation view

Greased, 2023, exhibition installation view

Greased, 2023, exhibition installation view

Greased, 2023, exhibition installation view

Greased, 2023, exhibition installation view

Greased, 2023, exhibition installation view

Greased, 2023, exhibition installation view

Greased, 2023, exhibition installation view

Greased, 2023, exhibition installation view

Greased, 2023, exhibition installation view

Greased, 2023, exhibition installation view

Greased, 2023, exhibition installation view

Greased, 2023, exhibition installation view

Greased, 2023, exhibition installation view

Greased, 2023, exhibition installation view

Greased, 2023, exhibition installation view

Greased, 2023, exhibition installation view

Greased, 2023, exhibition installation view