Jonah Freeman and Michael Phelan’s, The Long Goodbye, continues the artists’ concern with the ‘contemporary landscape’ and America’s absorption and perversion of both Occidental and Eastern historical modes and models. The exhibition includes mundane and disparate icons of consumerism such as disposable aluminum foil, synthetic carpet padding and ready-made glass display systems. Also included is a rambling testimonial on personal and financial failure found on the internet after googling the fortune cookie proverb “the two hardest things in life are success and failure”. Freeman/Phelan present these seemingly everyday/ ordinary objects with an eye towards both art history and the legacy of Middle America `life-styling’ within a postmodern aestheticized landscape. Their appropriations and re-contextualizations create objects that typically blend seamlessly into the field of the commercial contemporary landscape and blur the distinction between high and low while continuously questioning the viewer’s definition and expectation of what one may consider traditional Fine Art.