Ashley Bickerton pushes further into his dystopic, end-times vision for his second solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin Gallery, 540 West 26th Street. The gallery will present a new group of Bickerton's large-scale paintings called "The Eight Paintings" along with bronze sculptures. These new works are a fusion of painting, photography and sculpture and exude sexuality, exoticism and color.

The eerie quality of the green men from Bickerton's earlier work has now given way to the raucous and psychedelic-hued adventures of his blue "20th Century-Man" as he navigates a world populated with shamelessly inflated women and littered with the wreckage of "existentialism" and "escapism." Bickerton represents this world of abundance and sensual opulence while addressing his concerns as a painter.