{"id":843,"date":"2025-05-19T15:12:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T15:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/?p=843"},"modified":"2025-05-20T16:07:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T16:07:56","slug":"night-lights-and-the-absurdity-of-life-with-mark-whalen-harpers-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/19\/night-lights-and-the-absurdity-of-life-with-mark-whalen-harpers-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Lights and the Absurdity of Life with Mark Whalen @ Harper&#039;s, NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"K2FeedImage\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/fc5e44ad8933a6537728ad285817d556_L.jpg\" alt=\"Night Lights and the Absurdity of Life with Mark Whalen @ Harper&#039;s, NYC\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"K2FeedIntroText\">A few months back, we sat down with Mark Whalen on Radio Juxtapoz to talk about making sculpture and his upcoming solo show, Night Lights, at Harper&#8217;s. The show opened this weekend, featuring Whalen&#8217;s eclectic works, works of glass, aluminum, bronze, and marble within these freestanding and wall-hanging sculptures. As the gallery notes, &#8220;Whalen captures the complexities of human emotion across seven heads juxtaposed with assorted materials and form,&#8221; and much of what Whalen told me in our podcast was the absurdity of life and how sculpture should be, and can be, a vehicle to show this. Listen to the conversation below.\u2014Evan Pricco<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months back, we sat down with Mark Whalen on Radio Juxtapoz to talk about making sculpture and his upcoming solo show, Night Lights, at Harper&#8217;s. The show opened this weekend, featuring Whalen&#8217;s eclectic works, works of glass, aluminum, bronze, and marble within these freestanding and wall-hanging sculptures. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sculpture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846,"href":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.1dollar-hosting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}