In New Works Peter Caine outdoes himself with multiple figure installations of dazzling ambition, the likes of which few amusement houses have ever seen. Lights, sounds, voices and sheer quirky madness combine with homespun animatronic bravado to create a spectacle of dark Baroque magnificence.

There is his life-size ship of fools near the gallery’s entrance—Dorothy and the Tin Man crossing the Delaware with George Washington, Prince Whipple and a very talkative Barbara Bush, gushing over the prodigious member of the Marquis de Sade, literally a fountain of spewing jism. A critter greeting them on the marshy shore identifies himself as a beaver and he demands to be shaved.

Just beyond, a forest of eight- and nine-foot tall nyloned and Brancusi-esque Cabana Boys wriggle to a silent, funky beat. Some are striped like Pippy Long-stocking and one, the beast of the bunch, sprouts long cascades of synthetic hair. In their shadow is an angry God, handsomely feathered with the hackles of partridges and pheasants and swelling with bursts of light, as he pronounces his indignation.

Towards the rear of the main gallery is Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer, pulling along a shuffling, homeless black Santa with his shopping cart of wonderland toys. They and friends are on their way to Rehab Island. Santa sings Christmas in a deep bass. Rudolph squeaks out an hilarious and irreverent six-minute testimonial.

With animatronic prowess, Caine transforms the back gallery into a gloriously beautiful undersea world, teeming with tropical fish. This coral reef is a nuclear dumping ground, littered with containers of radioactive waste from a nuclear submarine. A navy diver takes Geiger readings. He radios his commanding officer on the USS Sperry, a sub-tender out of Port Loma, California that floats in miniature on the surface above. As the channels get mixed with a civilian ordering takeout from Long John Silver’s, an audio play ensues. The scene echoes an incident from Caine’s own tour of duty on the ship, when he was routinely forced to participate in the dumping of nuclear waste.