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@wonzimer DegreeZero: Utopia/Dystopia in Contemporary Art
Opening Reception: 5-10pm, Friday April 24th, 2026
Exhibition Dates: April 24th - May 22nd, 2026
Curated by
Lawrence Gipe and Constance Mallinson
Exhibiting Artists:
Lynn Aldrich
@lynnaldrich_art
Hilary Baker
@hilarybakerstudio
Austin Caswell
@austinmcaswell
Liz Cohen
@lizcohenstudio
Lawrence Gipe
@lawrencegipe
Beihua Guo
@beihua_guo
Mark Steven Greenfield
@dawggie51
Kaya & Blank
@kaya.blank
Ben Jackel
@bensantiquerestoration
Constance Mallinson
@makepaintinggreatagain
Umar Rashid
@frohawktwofeathers
Marcos Serafim
@marcosjserafim
Keith Walsh
@keith.walsh87
Wonzimer Gallery is proud to present “DegreeZero: Utopia/Dystopia in Contemporary Art”, a 13-artist group exhibition organized by artist-curators Lawrence Gipe and Constance Mallinson.
The work presented in DegreeZero exists in the grey area between the oppositional, yet strangely fungible, states of Utopia and Dystopia; this is not an academic exercise, as it this theme might bring to mind the state of contemporary societies caught in, for example, a precarious balance between the ideals of democracy and totalitarianism.
“Traditional views of Utopianism allow us to project ideal, humanitarian societies by imagining what might be but does not yet exist”, writes Mallinson from her essay for DegreeZero. “Without utopian idealism, one risks succumbing to Utopia’s co-equal sibling: Dystopia, loosely defined as the retreat/decline of progress and the prevalence of societies based totally on self-interest and the breakdown of shared goals. War, corruption, suffering, suppression, repression, and hopelessness are its chief characteristics.”