“The 16th” & “Handle With Care” 

Provocateurs that they are, the Eonta gallerists have matched a Japanese group show commemorating the anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster with a parallel exhibition by a quintet of nerved-up artists from the Greater New Jersey area.
 
The American-made pieces on the east and south side of Eonta Space shiver with apprehension. But they’re also expansive in a manner that the Japanese artworks simply aren’t.  Instead of retracting in the face of peril, they’re finding a perverse sort of refuge in their own exuberance.

Deliberately or not, this double show makes a statement about the dispositional differences between a society braced for doom and a society that has already been so visited.
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