Hiroki Tsukuda, “Enter the O”

For his gallery debut, the Japanese artist presents two different groups of works that don’t seem to have all that much to do with each other at first glance. Walls are hung with a series of large black and white drawings in ink, charcoal and spray paint, each featuring a jumbled image suggesting a futuristic cityscape or deconstructed cyborg. These dystopian sci-fi visions are contrasted by a trio of sculptures made of found objects and building materials. The centerpiece consists of a primitivistic thicket of wooden timbers, concrete cinder blocks and potted palms, as if a jungle gym were morphing into a desert oasis or vice-versa. Taken together, the two projects balance architectonic forms to bridge a divide between prelapsarian and post-apocalyptic.