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We Shall Make America Wonder

Joe Coleman, Felipe Jesus Consalvos, Henry Darger, & Duke Riley

March 16 – April 20, 2019

We Shall Make America Wonder
We Shall Make America Wonder
We Shall Make America Wonder
We Shall Make America Wonder
We Shall Make America Wonder
We Shall Make America Wonder
Felipe Jesus Consalvos, Sir Gogiva, c. 1920-50
Felipe Jesus Consalvos, The Marauders Are Coming, c. 1920-50
Felipe Jesus Consalvos, We Shall Make America Wonder, c. 1920-50
Joe Coleman, In the Realms of the Unreal [Henry Darger], 1998
Joe Coleman , Contemplation of a diagnosis of T cell lymphoma, 2015
Duke Riley, It's Coming Through a Hole in the Air, 2017
Duke Riley, It's Coming Through a Hole in the Air (detail), 2017
Henry Darger, At Jennie Richee Still Pursued Along the Aronburgs Run in the Storm by the Enemy (recto), n.d.
Henry Darger, Untitled (verso), n.d.
Henry Darger, Untitled, n.d.

Andrew Edlin Gallery is proud to present "We Shall Make America Wonder", a group exhibition featuring the art of Joe Coleman, Felipe Jesus Consalvos, Henry Darger and Duke Riley.

These four visionaries are each eminent cartographers of latent lands, where the unimaginable is fully imagined and otherness is not only recognizable but relatable. Their worlds apart are built up with a richness 

of minutiae, an internal logic that allows the irrational to ring true.

For some of these artists God is in the details, for others it is likely the devil. Collectively, we can see them as embroiderers of some quilt-like map of all the madness, superstition, faith, desire and dread festering within the American psyche.

—Carlo McCormick

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