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New Exhibition by Robert Fuerer in the Purchase College Library

PURCHASE, NY.- “Down the Rabbit Hole” is an exhibition of 50 fanciful sculptures and paintings by Robert Fuerer in the Purchase College Library on view through August 2010. The works are exhibited in the main art gallery and throughout the Library’s central spaces. Admission is free. Down the Rabbit hole refers to the portal where the strange world of the artist’s childhood memories enter his art. The works, with rabbit heads on formally dressed individuals, are his commentary about the ways in which modern society has darkened his perspective. The global economic crisis capitalism, corporate greed, war, and the loss of innocence are among the themes explored in these neo-social realistic works which are a reaction to the global economic crisis of 2008.