Dead Channel is an exhibition of new paintings by Kirsten Deirup, borrowing its title from the opening line of William Gibson's 1984 science-fiction novel Neuromancer, which imagines a world in which human consciousness interfaces with cyberspace. Corded telephones, computer keyboards, and CDs populate Deirup’s painterly mechanical graveyards—obsolete media treated not as nostalgia but as haunted thresholds. Into this landscape she introduces new beings: part mythical creature, part digital ghost, their toothy grimaces offset by iridescent feathers and jeweled adornments, confronting the viewer directly.
