3 June – 29 July, 2011

Opening reception: Friday, 3 June, from 6:00pm – 11:00pm

Marginal Utility Gallery is proud to present NOBODY DIGS YOUR MUSIC BUT YOURSELF, an exhibition of new work by ERIC McDADE.

Forty years in the making, Eric McDade's newest solo exhibition at Marginal Utility seems at first glance to be a collection of misunderstandings and/or ham-handed attempts at correcting them, as perpetrated by the misunderstood.

But it is so much less than that.

Here we see McDade sobbing into the sleeve of his black hoodie about being a poor, misunderstood sap, and trying to pass off the resulting snot-stain Rorschachs as visual work that might hold the viewer's interest for longer than it takes to ignore a pamphlet distributor on the sidewalk.

His gimmick this time? Photography. Too terrified of failure to draw or paint, McDade plays the role of director in order to churn out seven pieces that do little more than boast a sense of spare theatricality while begging for bits of audience commiseration, like a panhandler trying to earn money for a bus ride back to New Jersey.

The show opens June 3rd, from 6:00pm to 11:00pm, and runs through July 29th, 2011.

Bring something to read.