'Fake News' Coming To Sunset Park Art Gallery

SUNSET PARK, NY — Fake news will get off the internet and into the real world. A 48th Street art gallery will open their latest exhibit, "Fake News, art and artifice," over the weekend with works made by several artists on or with newspapers.

The exhibit, which opens Saturday at the Tabla Rasa Gallery at 224 48th St., features pieces by more than a dozen artists ranging for collages with newspapers to video projections, organizers said.

The show tries to look at the term "fake news" — which was named one of the Words of the Year in 2017 — through a different way, with art showing truth by distorting physical newspapers, according to organizers.

"Fake news in our current climate is about undermining the truth, it's taking things like veritable numbers and denying, denying, denying," said Audrey Anastasi, one of the directors of the gallery. "In art, just the opposite often happens."

The pieces in the show include handmade books in the shape of clothing made with newspapers for federal holidays, a horse painted onto racing results, a portrait of a political prisoner's hand and more. Artists in the show include Sophia Dawson, William Ellis, Stephen Basso and John Avelluto.

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The show will open on Saturday with an artists reception from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. and run until March 4.

Lead image: "Brother Mondo II" by Sophia Dawson (Used with permission by Tabla Rasa Gallery)