Los Angeles-based artist Rodney McMillian wittily deconstructs American society through his inventive use of painting and sculpture. In this installation, two store-bought Jesus blankets and a scattering of coffin-like cardboard boxes provide context for a semi-abstract latex painting of a dreamy blue sky that commands the gallery's main space. Sold by the foot at income-adjusted prices, Sky implies heaven has a fair price. As thematic counterpoint to the sale of heaven, artist Stephen Westfall performs Lyndon B. Johnson's "Great Society" speech on video. Johnson's vision of an ecologically and economically balanced US reduces the opposition between social liberalism and conservative Christianity to a quest for heaven in the here or hereafter.

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