Banks Violette's untitled installation, comprised of an oil-on-linen painting and two chandeliers doubling as incendiary devices, is a fairyland armageddon sutured from the landscape of a (provisional) American history.

Using such diverse references as Motorhead album covers, Breughel, and pathological teenage gangs, Violette weaves popular culture iconography into an operatic tale of co-opted rebellion.

The chandeliers, from the series Descendent Aggressor, are named after members of the extremist juvenile delinquent club The Lords of Chaos. They planned to disguise themselves as members of the Magic Kingdom in order to infiltrate Disney World and randomly execute tourists, but were arrested before their plans could be realized.

Violette's chandeliers mirror this pathological non-event. As the juveniles take on one fiction to assault another, so does the painting Untitled (L.O.C.). This intricate and layered landscape presents conventions of adolescent fantasy and bloodlust to the point of collapse.

Banks Violette received a BA from the School of Visual Arts, NYC and attended Columbia University's MFA Program. After his exhibition at Momenta, his work was exhibited at Team Gallery, NYC.