New York, NY - PALO Gallery is excited to present The Shrink, an exhibition featuring emotionally engaging lightboxes and sculptures by Julius Margulies. Margulies takes on the full spectrum of human emotion in this series, allowing viewers to explore their own inner experiences. The lightboxes in particular use illumination as a central component, with internal “LED lights controlled by a mood monitor that can be changed to any color on the visible spectrum.” These works possess an internal neural network that reveals their own emotions to the viewer.
Margulies was inspired by growing up around x-ray light boxes due to his father’s profession in spinal surgery. He grounds science in aesthetics and delves into the unconscious realm of human emotion with Freudian surrealism. While the focus of his art is undeniably contemporary and human emotion-centric, his art also comments on the technology-saturated world in which we live. This work demonstrates Margulies’ exploration of the personal, marking his journey from tattooing to fine art. This exhibition promises to give viewers a deeper understanding of the vocabulary around human emotion while offering an introduction to Margulies and his artistic practice.