Pest

PEST

When: Opening Friday, June 27 @ 6-9 PM | Closing Sunday, August 3 @ 2-4 PM

On view: June 27 - August 3, 2025

Where: 4th Floor at The Clemente

Artists: Mike Estabrook, David B Frye, Robert Goldkind, Vandana Jain, Katarina Jerinic, Mark Power

Organized by: ABC No Rio Visual Arts Collective

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What gets under your skin?

PEST examines the persistent, the unwanted, the overlooked—and the deeply unsettling. Curated by members of the ABC No Rio Artist Collective, this group exhibition brings together artists who probe the idea of the "pest" in its many forms: the literal and metaphorical, the social and psychological, the seen and the felt.

Whether creepy, crawly, or conceptual, pests are things we endure, resist, or attempt to erase—yet they remain, multiplying at the edges of our comfort. PEST explores what it means to be irked, to feel annoyance or unease, and to confront the entities and forces we often wish would just go away.

Through installation, video, sculpture, and mixed media, participating artists interrogate our complex relationships with pests: how they disrupt, how they adapt, and how, in some cases, they mirror aspects of ourselves and our societies.