Bringing the depths of human terror to the dimming light of the 20th century, CoCA presents Dusk, a group exhibition featuring artists recontextualizing the gothic tradition. Sharing a fascination with the dark and the dramatic, these artists stretch taut the tension between repulsion and attraction, humor and emptiness. Understanding the resurgence in contemporary culture of a 'gothic' sensibility, Dusk examines works that are ultimately a reaction against the prevailing notion of enlightenment through idealized harmony and ordered control. Perhaps recognizing the misuse of these ideals and the result of complacent sameness, these artists attempt to shock, humor, terrorize and seduce us out of this time of cool cleanliness. Works in the exhibition focus primarily on portraiture and images of the human form through photography, video, painting and sculpture. Some artists explore the culture of the contemporary goth through documentation. For example, Mike Kelley's and Cameron Jaime's photographs of the LA goth scene and Alexander Osbourne's photographs of important bands like Bauhaus and the Fall. Others manipulate the imagery of the goth like Aura Rosenberg's photos of her daughter slathered in black make-up or Veronika Bromova's sci-fi digitally altered photographs. Vincent Johnson creates hybridized portraits of pornography stars while Marit Folstad goes for the real thing documenting the rather racy topic of masturbation. Humor in horror is explored by John Kramer's rendition of Carrie and also by Kevin Willis' strange photographs. Curated by Chicago artist Kim Collmer and De Kwok of Milky World Gallery, Dusk is a exhibition featuring local, national and international artists.