Exposing the Agony and Ecstasy of Adolescence

Adolescence is nothing if not an endless series of paradoxes. As a teenager you spend your days with packs of people, and yet often feel utterly isolated; you’re carving your own identity, and yet are indelibly shaped by the influences around you. It’s excruciating, and magical, and formative, with highs and lows that are as devastating as they are delirious.

This summer, a new exhibition at California’s Joseph Bellows Gallery distills the endless absurdity of…