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Regarding etymology, the notion of looking (rather than seeing or observing) is unique to English. To behold is to maintain a type of looking related to awe, to cherish with one’s eyes what one is seeing. To behold is grandiose, old-fashioned, an act of shock, egotistical on another’s behalf. Behold! Four artists, Stewart Bird, collaborators Chris Comfort and Dana Greenleaf, and Genevieve Goffman, showing with the gallery for the first time. Each has created works of fantasy that negotiate the relative necessity of the ego through its disintegration, creation, and absolution in the surreality of modern times. In painting, sculpture, and video, included works utilize machinic processes to describe humanistic experiences.