Schroeder Romero is pleased to announce new work by David Hevel in the main gallery and a special project by Bayard in the Project Gallery.

David Hevel presents a new body of his celebrity-driven, obsessively crafted and wickedly humorous sculptures as well as new watercolor works on paper. This is his first solo exhibition in New York.

MORE: The Cautionary Tale of Britney Spears uses the pop star as the metaphor for a fairy tale, an exuberant narrative warning of the ultimate demise of a moribund society of privilege. Disguised as a bizarre satirical burlesque, the show first appears to be a simple poke at Britney Spears, however, under the surface, the show paints a picture of a collective consciousness consumed with an insatiable lust for more, numbed by over-consumption and a collective loss of spirituality and disengagement with the insecurity of the future.

Fairy tales and nursery rhymes served to teach morals to young children. They were warnings of environmental dangers, taught moral scruples and perpetuated gender roles. Disguised with enchanting characters and fantastic monsters the fairy tale creates a platform to reveal functions of a collective psyche without any material bridge to reality. Spears is the construct for a contemporary archetype representing a degenerate society obsessed with more. More money, more sex, more oil, more land, more territory, more stupidity, more anything.

Shifting between the beautiful and grotesque, the show will feature sculptures of baboons representing the Spears clan painstakingly constructed of faux flowers, glass beads, costume jewels, taxidermy forms and other bizarre craft products. His use of synthetic materials suggests the hyper-artificiality of the subject matter itself.

The empathic works on paper counteract the somewhat frightening sculptures. Baby monkeys are shown looking lonely, needy and sad. This series is titled BooBoos which is the word Ms. Spears used to describe her children in the Matt Lauer interview. “Boo boo” is normally used to describe a mistake or a child’s slight injury.

Hevel received his MFA from the California College of Art in San Francisco in 2002. Recent solo exhibitions include Babes in the Woods at the Peeler Art Center at DePauw University, Greencastle, IN and Fierce at Heather Marx Gallery, San Francisco.