Vorderzimmer’s upcoming show, TEEN MACHINE (opening October 16), is an outlier for us. Usually we feature artists via solo shows; and usually those artists are adults (Duh!…..aDUH!lts) - people who have been developing their art for decades. TEEN MACHINE grew - quite literally - out of the pandemic. The original concept was a Kid Salon, showing art by children ages 9 to 11. The opening was scheduled for a Sunday in March 2020. Two days before, we had to give in to circumstances and cancel the show. Whatever was going around was too unknowably dangerous to justify hosting a gathering of people. Two and a half years later, those kids have grown. They are now sliding, crashing, flying, falling, dancing and jumping into their teen years. Organizing a show of art by people in their early teens is something different entirely than a “Kid Salon”. 13- & 14-year-olds seem constantly on the cusp —- between parents still overseeing a lot of their actions, and taking on respo