Opposite the representatives a rehashed lawn sign read “Vampire Trance ’24.” A parodic Kanye 2024 poster hung behind it, and a photobooth offered to fold your picture into a propaganda poster with AI, aligning the imagery with your politics—according to a brief survey. Close by, the artist Midori Hirose was showing a curtain hung in the shape of a voting booth with a waist-level plastic mouth in the front, lips rounded, that functioned as a peephole. “Hang in there!” read a drawing by Ralph Pugay, in which one figure helped another out of a flooded street as a tornado churned in the distance. In a self-portrait, the photographer Melanie Flood wore a prosthetic pregnant belly. Shepard Fairey supplied a stack of posters featuring Harris’s portrait in the style of his iconic Hope poster from the 2008 Obama campaign. But not all of the art here is overtly topical. There are several abstract paintings by Charlie Salas-Humara. Another piece is a pizza-shaped skateboard with a greasy pepperoni pizza graphic that endlessly spins on a string. Sebo Walker, a professional skateboarder and painter, has a piece layering several canvases that gets somewhere in the neighborhood of a Mondrian grid. In a work by comics artist Shannon Wheeler, a caveman tells a twenty-first century man, “I’m from the future.”

Four Oceans One Family gets its name from an idiom painted on the Chinatown Gateway meant to cast the entire world as a family, across the four oceans (we only recognized a fifth ocean, the Southern Ocean, in 2000). One of the group’s founders, the artist and designer Peter Yue, told me his aim with the gallery, which plans to pop up in various spaces around the neighborhood, is to bring people into Chinatown, where he’s spent much of his life. However bipartisan, Vote or Suck certainly echoes the maelstrom of election run up. And it brought a crowd to Chinatown, on a Tuesday no less.