FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS

Reception: Wednesday, April 13th, 5–8pm

Mingo Gallery
284 Cabot Street
Beverly, MA

Gallery Hours
Tues, Wed, Fri, 10am–9pm
Thurs 11am-7pm
Sat 10am-4pm

*Friends With Benefits* features the work of seniors Sam Glidden, a bookbinder, and Brendan MacAllister, an illustrator. Both artists create work that comments on the tendencies of 21st Century American culture through dark, dry humor and irony touching on themes such as consumerism, apathy, and materialism. MacAllister deals with these concepts through figurative paintings, while Glidden employs rhetoric and hand printed literature. As the sarcastic title of the show suggests, Brendan and Sam are both tongue-in-cheek on the surface, but underneath the humor lies two dishearted youths without answers in 21st Century America presenting their view on the human condition.