User error
Gale Hart shows her gun-centric artwork at Elliott Fouts Gallery
Raise your hand if you were able to recognize the shape of a six-shooter when you were a kid. It’s so common to see tons of guns in movies and TV shows—and sometimes in person—that it’s normalized in our culture, but Gale Hart’s current body of work at Elliott Fouts Gallery zeros in on our relationship with them. In the clever and beautifully constructed “Til Death Do Us Part,” a six-shooter mirrors itself, leaving the user looking down the barrel, too. In another, “Cannot Grasp,” a pistol has shiny steel thorns sprouting from its handle. These objects are meant to destroy targets, but as Hart’s work clearly explains—and reiterates—they also destroy the user.
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