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   Doom is Joey Serricchio’s most recent exhibition running from October 25th to October 29th 2021 in the upstairs Mezzanine Hallway of 870 S Raymond Ave, Pasadena, CA 91105. The gallery space is open between the hours of 7am - 11pm daily with the online portion of the curation being accessible any time.

   The exhibition explore's feelings of inevitability; a deep future and deep past that are unattainable. The word Doom is brutal but the act of “Doom,” the nature of time, is anything but. Because the course of time is the reason we exist. Doom, in this exhibition, is reimagined to generate compassion for things we will never meet in a future where we won't be alive. The artist attempts this by presenting intimate scenes of deep times millions and billions of years before his current exhibit. Doom is a vicious end, but the works, delicately crafted and cared for, offer a different angle to the end of time, and the end of living.

The show consists of four main artworks:

1. An generative animation of fish under a bobbing sea and birds above the wake criss crossing, living and dying, into one another.

2. A series of four embroidered towels Imaging eons in the geologic timeline in rolling panoramas.

3. A Sandcastle that contains the six elements that create all organic life, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur.

4. A pixelated fossil shell, Ammonite, embedded in a handmade QR code. The code links to text based artworks of a variety of sea shells.

   Serricchio’s work sits with a loss of control. In the exhibit doom artworks move at different paces, some moving fast and some standing still. His work resists the concept of the inevitable by noting and celebrating the necessity of change and the process of growth over time. All in the hopes of moving toward a sustainable future.