Gert & Uwe Tobias at Team Gallery

The plates, teapots, ashtrays, and other household objects stacked atop one another to hold up Gert and Uwe Tobias' handmade clay heads, which greet you buffet-style upon entering Team Gallery's Wooster Street space, are one indicator of the artist brothers' playful piecemeal aesthetic. The absurdism continues on the walls, where stunning, large-scale painted works of prickly flowers, grimacing ghouls, upside down butterflies, and one figure that looks like a Donald Duck mid-acid trip allow rigid geometry and abstract modernism to collide with narratives harkening back to the artists' Transylvanian folk heritage. In the Grand Street space, a series of dreamy albeit somewhat twisted collages, where figures float against watercolor-like backgrounds, are the icing on the cake. Catch the works through March 30th, 2013.

TEAM GALLERY
83 Grand Street
New York, NY 10013
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TEAM GALLERY
47 Wooster Street
New York, NY 10013
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The stacked clay-headed figures

Wooster Street gallery space works