ODDLY ENOUGH, amid all the images of flesh on view in Strand on Volta's latest group exhibition, shown along with examples of some less readily identifiable bodily tissue/fluid sculpted from molten glass -- teeth? a jawbone? sperm? tears? -- the word that springs to mind is not "meat" but "plastic." As in pliable, capable of being molded, able to deform continuously and permanently without rupturing. This is, I think, central to the point of "Meat and You," a smart if somewhat esoteric show organized by artist James Huckenpahler to underscore not only our relationship to meat but our embodiment of it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2003/10/10/strand-on-volta-cuts-in-to-some-meaty-issues/8a433284-af01-4d27-aff1-2afd819a815b/?utm_term=.1ddc9b357597

THERE'S THE creepiness of a horror movie to Craig Doty's art, on view at Strand on Volta. Which is to say you might want to cover your eyes while peeking through the cracks of your fingers at the same time. I'm not just talking about the artist's more overtly spooky images, several of which depict nighttime scenes featuring characters engaged in behavior that could be construed as threatening, or in response to threat. Even Doty's most innocuous images -- and there's a kind of calm, classical innocence to almost all of them -- feel illicit, if not illegal. Should I be watching this, or reporting it? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/09/AR2005060900651.html

Tony and Heather Podesta, David Brock, and Alefantis at Strand on Volta.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/food/article/13028600/plus-ccedila-change

Some of the sick works by an artist named Craig Doty who is featured at Strand on Volta - This shit is supposed to be art but is almost NSFL btw.

http://www.rootsandculturecac.org/images/shows/show32_445.jpg http://www.rootsandculturecac.org/images/shows/show32_448.jpg http://www.rootsandculturecac.org/images/shows/show32_447.jpg http://www.rootsandculturecac.org/images/shows/show32_441.jpg http://www.rootsandculturecac.org/images/shows/show32_452.jpg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Ip2wwMnSOfo/Ss0FRlm36mI/AAAAAAAAAwE/NYf9h_kd5J4/s400/craig.jpg http://wecanshoottoo.blogspot.com/2009/10/feature-craig-doty.html

                                  Part 2. Transformer Gallery AKA Transexual

So as im digging I came across a second gallery that James Alefantis is the current president of called Trans-former Gallery with pretty weird "art" .also found a great set of photos of a Transformer Gallery hosted party at none other than Tony Podestas house!

http://www.transformerdc.org/about/council http://archive.is/joUBw Matha Wilson, featured at Transformer gallery more WTF. http://franklinfurnace.org/support/membership2015/mw_letter.php even more WTF - http://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/002-M-WILSON-Bear-in-MindBare-in-Hind.jpg https://ribbonaroundabomb.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/franklin-7.jpg

Transformer Gallery artist trying to promote pedophilia - "NoMüNoMü maintains a diverse selection of artists whose make up cuts through the lines of race, age, gender and orientation, in order to create shows that can push dialogues and audiences towards a truer understanding of the intersectionality within the field of art, so as to transform it entirely." http://www.transformerdc.org/exhibitions/overview/exhibition-gift-shop