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Halsey McKay Gallery is thrilled to present new works by gallery artists Glen Baldridge and Elias Hansen at the Armory Show. Both artists use and distort traditional art making and craft techniques to explore new territory in painting and sculpture. A subtle darkness and wry humor pervade the works which reference underground cultures surrounding music scenes, illicit laboratories, and the spirit of centuries of DIY ne’er-do-wells and virtuosic craftsman alike.

Glen Baldridge’s new paintings extrapolate age-old paper marbling techniques to make abstract paintings of camouflaged texts. Drawing …