nycartscene: Opens Tonight, May 16, 6-8p:“PLAYLAND” Maria E. PiñeresDCKT Contemporary, 21 Orchard St., NYC (bt Hester & Canal)Piñeres’s signature medium of stitched needlepoint places the nude figure in an optical duel with the eye-catching graphics of the pinball machine playfields and backglasses of her adolescence. PLAYLAND, a now defunct 1980s’ Times Square gaming arcade, stood as a shiny, visually stimulating beacon to youth, nestled in perverse contrast with the then ubiquitous porn palaces, peep shows and sex shops. Piñeres’s works set youthful rent boys and pin-up girls into the contextual backdrop of pinball, where their sexuality can be seen in a playful and sentimental light void of shame and smut. - thru July 7
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nycartscene: Opens Tonight, May 16, 6-8p:“PLAYLAND” Maria E. PiñeresDCKT Contemporary, 21 Orchard St., NYC (bt Hester & Canal)Piñeres’s signature medium of stitched needlepoint places the nude figure in an optical duel with the eye-catching graphics of the pinball machine playfields and backglasses of her adolescence. PLAYLAND, a now defunct 1980s’ Times Square gaming arcade, stood as a shiny, visually stimulating beacon to youth, nestled in perverse contrast with the then ubiquitous porn palaces, peep shows and sex shops. Piñeres’s works set youthful rent boys and pin-up girls into the contextual backdrop of pinball, where their sexuality can be seen in a playful and sentimental light void of shame and smut. - thru July 7
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Opens Tonight, May 16, 6-8p:

“PLAYLAND”
 Maria E. Piñeres

DCKT Contemporary, 21 Orchard St., NYC (bt Hester & Canal)

Piñeres’s signature medium of stitched needlepoint places the nude figure in an optical duel with the eye-catching graphics of the pinball machine playfields and backglasses of her adolescence. PLAYLAND, a now defunct 1980s’ Times Square gaming arcade, stood as a shiny, visually stimulating beacon to youth, nestled in perverse contrast with the then ubiquitous porn palaces, peep shows and sex shops. Piñeres’s works set youthful rent boys and pin-up girls into the contextual backdrop of pinball, where their sexuality can be seen in a playful and sentimental light void of shame and smut. - thru July 7

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