Appropriately titled, UN related: A Giant Cap Gun and White Discs on view at Museum Gallery Gallery Museum features the work of Australia native Waseem Touma and the Lexington, Kentucky based pseudonymous corporate organization Dronex Inc. In addition to being formally and materially dissimilar, the works of Waseem Touma and Dronex Inc. are conceptually miles apart.

Dronex Inc.’s contributions provide the viewer a wide array of objects to engage with. The pieces range from the two dimensional to the sculptural, to plain old merchandise (tee shirts for sale). As a send up of a hierarchical corporate entity, the conglomeration of “products” for sale are effective and Dronex Inc.’s selected imagery (bees, chickens, and ‘drones’) all underscore the point. But one can’t help feeling that with his two dimensional work in particular, “the point” is the point. It’s clever, no doubt, but clever only goes so far.

Far superior to Dronex Inc.’s flags with barcode stripes, or pop takes on domesticated fowl are his sculptural endeavors. One is literally (figuratively) blown away (sorry) by the ridiculous scale of Lovegun a giant snub nosed revolver, and Bad Bacon an enormous piggy bank. These bright, absurdist takes on the crassness of American culture are too good to resist. Crafted with precision (out of wood fragments) Lovegun and Bad Bacon succeed where other pieces fail not only because of their arresting formal beauty, but because their meaning comes from within rather than without. The preposterous nature of a man-sized neon green pistol or a huge piggy bank with sunglasses is rivaled only by our equally preposterous cultural fascination with guns and money. These works are the zeitgeist, whereas Dronex Inc.’s wall images sometimes read as products of it.