Pretty Please?: Pleaserland
“Pleaserland is home to fragile hearts and minds. The terrain is sultry, the air unbreathable. The garments in the show draw inspiration from exoskeletons and colors found in nature that form to scare off potential threats. In Pleaserland, vivid hysteria materializes around bodies, becoming a pretty shell.”
February 11 – April 2, 2022
The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art is pleased to announce their next exhibition, Pleaserland.
Pretty Please? is an artist and drag performer based in Buffalo, NY and Pleaserland is their first solo exhibition. Pretty Please? is a visual parody of anxiety surrounding bodies, queerness, sexuality, and race. Confronted with their work, the audience dons discomfort like a skin, cultivating a space for understanding and love.
Pretty Please?’s work oozes across drawing, performance, photography and fashion as they smush media together. In an immersive installation in BICA’s warehouse space Pleaserland will include a series of the artist’s handmade garments, photographs of looks sometimes scanned and reborn as new looks and ideas, and works on paper that capture moments of high distress and intense love.
Pretty Please? is an artist and performer from Fredonia, NY. They hold a BFA from SUNY Fredonia and exhibited work at the Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art in their inaugural exhibition, Body Spray under the name Pchy Fleshtone. Their work (Ryan Huff) appeared alongside an interview by Kyla Kegler in Issue 5 of Cornelia Magazine.
This program is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Services Inc.
