Sixteen:One gallery is pleased to present Smash and Tickle, a group exhibition organized by Sara Hunsucker. The exhibition runs December 9th through January 6th, 2006, with a reception for the artists Saturday, December 9th, from 7-10pm.

Smash and Tickle, (rooted in the Cockney slang term "Slap and Tickle") describes a manner of play which is the evocation of sensation, corporeality, physical response, exhilaration, and eroticism. Each artist’s work investigates of these motifs. Curiosity, innocents, and subversion frolic wildly in this stimulating group show.

Featuring the work of:

Seth Augustine with video of the artist’s exertion during physical conditioning- projected on a stretched skin-like membrane.

Scott Horsley shows epic line drawings of man-on-man combat that feature fire arms paired with sex toys.

Julia Dzwonkoski & Kye Potter present graphic and humorous collaborative Exquisite Corpse paintings that play with subjective reality, humor, violence, and body.

David Adey shows Kinetic Assemblage of respirator controlling a football embedded with drywall screw quills. The result is a slow, erotic, and foreboding animation.

Peter Harkawik shows the passage of time as a playful yet meticulous manual manipulation of organic material.

Robert Twomey brings you his installation with a video projection of a doting father in dialogue with a found baby carriage.