”Friendship” might not be the first word that comes to mind when thinking of dinosaurs, but it is for Lorien Stern. Her second solo exhibition at Hashimoto Contemporary, Old Friends, celebrates the connections inhabitants of Earth have to prehistoric creatures while dispelling any fear of dinos as dangerous, menacing beasts. Inspired by the imaginative work paleontologists and paleoartists have done to represent these mysterious creatures, Stern’s work casts the animals from this extremely distant past in an optimistic light, declaring them as sweet and lovable as our oldest friends.
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