There is a somewhat desolate feeling to the block of 29th Street that Fred Torres Collaborations calls home. Stepping off the dusty street, full of as many auto body shops as galleries, I felt both expectant and uneasy. This feeling only increased when I stepped into “Tall Tales” an exhibition of new drawings by Kristofer Porter and Christopher Davison. It is clear from the outset that both artists are incredible draftsmen. There is a shared sensibility, which looms thick and dark in the white walled gallery. Porter’s nightmarish cartoons are as expressive as they are surreal. Lost souls jostle and cling to one another fixed somewhere between terror and delight. Davison’s work is a study in psychic tension, where mythic archetypes rain supreme. The mystical thrust of his diminutive drawings and collages is staggering.
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