Alligator Has stock in Germany "--Manny Schongut Emanuel Schongut studied

"--Manny Schongut Emanuel Schongut studied art under Richard Lindner at Pratt Institute

Josefine Seifert

and her dying husband

Those individuals are like a repressed birds trapped in a cage

Alongside original photographs made at both sites

Alligator Has stock in Germany "--Manny Schongut Emanuel Schongut studiedIn Alligator, David Ryan's experiments in language and form produce 23 stark, lyrical stories that explore the human condition. Kaleidoscopic, surprising, and occasionally shocking, Ryan's liminal realism shifts between incantatory parables and a hard scrabble, fractured reality, rooted in the deep, visceral logic of memory, wild impulse, and dream. Alligator's stories collect desire, dislocation of family, love, and estrangement into a brutalist