Find Utopia on Staten Island at Snug Harbor's Latest Exhibit

Carlton Scott Sturgill's "Garden of Delights" greets visitors to "Eutopia," a collection of installations by artists in the Vanderbuilt Republic agency.

Sabrina Barrios' "Coup d'Etat: How to Resist" in Shinbone Alley of Snug Harbor leads visitors on a surreal, dark pathway through the rest of the "Eutopia" exhibition.

A piece by Carlton Scott Sturgill in "Eutopia" at Snug Harbor.

A piece by Dale Williams' in Snug Harbor and the Vanderbilt Republic's "Eutopia" exhibition, on display through September 11, 2016.

A piece by TJ Volonis inside the Eutopia exhibition at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Gardens.

Inside an installation by TJ Volonis inside the Eutopia exhibition at Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Gardens.

One of Charles Heppner's cigar box pieces in "Eutopia," a collection of installations by artists in the Vanderbuilt Republic agency.

When artists from the Vanderbilt Collective began restoring a room inside Snug Harbor's Main Hall for their "Eutopia" exhibition, they came upon a partial sentence that had been painted and plastered over. It became a focal point of artist Taxiplasm's installation, "He To Himself For His Own."

A piece by Dale Williams' in Snug Harbor and the Vanderbilt Republic's "Eutopia" exhibition

In Snug Harbor's latest exhibit Eutopia, a group of seven artists from the creative agency Vanderbilt Republic attempt to depict the concept of a utopia.

One of the exhibit's most striking installations is a whimsical, white-lighted glass house, created by Carlton Scott Sturgill. Inside Sturgill's slice of paradise is a bedroom filled with flowers, growing from the mattress, the ground and the walls. Look carefully, and the viewer sees the flowers are made of cloth — Ralph Lauren shirts, upon even closer inspection.

The exhibit will remain in Snug Harbor until September 11th. With all the dystopian current events occurring the pieces help imagine a brighter future.

via Staten Island Advance

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Joshua Mu

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When he is not attempting to hustle the hustlers of Central Park, Joshua enjoys exploring the depths of what New York has to offer. He one day hopes to pilot a drone without immediately crashing it.

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