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Nicolas Shake
Ecstatic Membrane
April 5 – May 3, 2025

The ecstasy of the Polaroid is of the same order: to hold the object and its image almost simultaneously […]
Jean Baudrillard, America

Megan Mulrooney is pleased to present a solo exhibition of Polaroids by Los Angeles-based artist Nicolas Shake. This new body of work focuses on fading signage and storefronts across greater Los Angeles, many of which evoke the mid-century commercial vernacular that once shaped the city’s postwar identity. With an eye attuned to the surreal poetics of urban decay, Shake captures the twilight of a once-hopeful …