Stop by booth 206 at The Armory Show through Sunday, September 11 to see this spectacular work by Fred Tomaselli. Tomaselli’s most recent resin encapsulated collage work, "Honeycreeper", 2022, depicts a Mamo Honeycreeper, now extinct following the European colonization of Hawaii. Represented ominously white-eyed, the imposing, fiercely hook-beaked bird rests on a flowering branch, which it tightly clutches with threateningly sharp talons. Spiraling upwards from the bird is a burst of collaged newsprint pinwheels that germinate across the picture plane in mesmerizing and hallucinatory patterns, like a blooming bouquet or a mutating virus–the idyll of nature pierced by the man-made world. . Hawaiian Honeycreepers descended from finches and once totaled 51 sub-species. Contemporaneously, more than half of these nectar-eating species are now extinct due to human impact. For Tomaselli, making the Mamo Honeycreeper visible in his work is a way to see the unseeable, and acknowledge the Holocene Extinction and humanity's precarious relationship with nature. . Can't make it to the Javits Center in person? Explore our presentation online in our latest Viewing Room via link in bio. . . 📸: FRED TOMASELLI, Honeycreeper, 2022, leaves, photo collage, acrylic and resin on wood panel, 84 x 60 in., 213.4 x 152.4 cm. Photo by Phoebe d'Heurle. . . . @fredtomaselli . #FredTomaselli #HoneyCreeper #Resin #Collage #Bird #ContemporaryArt #ContemporaryPainting #BirdWatching #MixedMedia #Ornithology #TheArmoryShow #Armory2022 #TheArmoryShow2022 #ArtCollectorsOfIG