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Object of the Week

September 29, 2014

Object of the Week
By: Hayden DeBruler ‘17

Caleb Weintraub’s gallery exhibition suspends disbelief in light of his fantastical compositions, transporting the viewer to an alternate reality that combines an alarming juxtaposition of tortured figures with an ambient glow of familiar comfort. Weintraub introduces a new reality, driven through a Beetle Juice-esque lens, of similar aesthetic without the flimsy jointed characters.

In his sculptural installations, the children look more inwardly forlorn than under imminent attack by the ostrich warrior. They are lost in a dystopia of the mind—a consumption of the self, subconscious danger being of far greater import. The entire exhibit disarms the viewer, putting an edge to getting lost within his works—a return to the world outside of his gallery looking all the more angular, grotesque, and entirely too safe; our minds looking to be the end of us.

Hayden DeBruler is from Greenville, South Carolina. DePauw Class of 2017, Creative Writing and Art History Major. She is a volunteer with the Peeler Art Center Galleries.