This exhibition features 3 artists whose work employs imagery that crossbreeds humans and animals: A tidy-whitey-wearing pudgy boy body dons a doleful dog head... A gangly antelope in oversized satin grips her thorny bouquet with cracked and craggy human hands. The works are drawings on paper of varying sizes and small carvings of Ivory soap. The style of the work ranges from convincing photorealism to stylized cartoon.

While each of the artists are generating these amalgams through very different approaches, the results bare some interesting similarities: There is a quite pronounced and complicated sense of humor at work here, despite of, or perhaps located in the intense pathos of these pieces. The emotional presence of the hybrid characters is raw and accessible. Where human social expectations are imposed on animal-headed characters, their discomfort is painfully familiar, evoking vague memories of schoolyard alienation or cocktail party awkwardness.

The psychological presence of these combination creatures is intensified by their physical states -their vulnerability is distilled. With their vacant animal eyes and furred faces, they seem so... human. These creatures don't inhabit a unique world, separated from ours and our experience; they exist in a consciously designed blank space that allows their perpetual dilemma to remain an internal one, despite their physical conditions. They are suspended in a state of emotional taxidermy, frozen in damaging moments. They are each their own tragic comedy. To witness them is to soften a little, like bruising peaches.