Corey Helford Gallery proudly presents
MICHAEL MARARIAN
Youth Parade
OPENS THIS SATURDAY, JANUARY 16TH 7-10PM
With Guest Loft Artist
Miso – The Cold Returns
While Pre-Kindergarten is not required, enrollment has skyrocketed in recent years to help better prepare children to “succeed” in kindergarten.
Somewhere in a sleepy little town in the suburbs, youths gather after-school to down fistfuls of prescription drugs that have been raided from their family medicine cabinets at what they refer to as “Pharm Parties”.
On National Public Radio, the Dean of a New England College classifies two types of incoming students as “Crispy’s and China Cups.” Crispy’s are the students whose families involve them in so many after-school activities that they are already burned out by the time they get to college and China Cups are the ones who shatter at the slightest bit of academic stress because their parents have always had everything done for them
In 2003, two New York University students, in separate occasions, jump to their deaths from the open-air crosswalks inside NYU’s Bobst Library. After the second suicide, the school installs plastic windows on each level to prevent further jumping. In 2009 a third student jumps to his death from the tenth floor, apparently having scaled the plexiglass barricade.
And at Princeton University, a group of researchers come to the conclusion that school shooters do not “snap”. They plan. They acquire weapons. They take long, considered, public paths toward violence.
This is our youth, and this is their parade.
Michael Mararian
2010
above: “Little Man of Steel” – 60″ x 44″ – acrylic on paper
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