Bones’ Beat: Mark Flood’s Chelsea Whores at Zach Feuer Gallery

We’re at Chelsea Whores, Houston-based Mark Flood’s second one-person show in New York and his first at Zach Feuer Gallery in Chelsea. The artwork immediately to one’s left is a spray painted stencil on a tin sign called, descriptively, EXXON / TAKE DRUGS. A work a few feet away, METH / COMMUNITY BREAKFAST, consists of a Golden Oaks Montessori lawn sign–the plastic kind on a pair of prongs that pokes into suburban verges to advertise local events–with a message stencilled on the front in silver spraypaint. The message reads “METH.” The artist’s name is misspelled, ‘Mark Lood’, on the adhesive vinyl signage by the front desk. Mark Flood is 52 years old.