Friday, 27 July 2012

Roxy Music

 Flesh & Blood (1980)

Avalon (1982)

Roxy Music | Ladytron (1972)

The Specials | Blank Expression

Gabriel Dawe

The Density of Light, April 2012,  Lot 10 Gallery, Brussels, Belgium


Plexus no. 15, 2012
Site specific installation at LSU Museum of Art
gütermann thread, painted wood and hooks, 28' x 4' x 16'

Plexus no. 14, 2012
Site specific installation at Galerie Lot 10
gütermann thread, painted wood and hooks, 8' x 8' x 11'

Plexus no. 5, 2011
Site specific installation at pump projects 2011 Texas Bienial
gütermann thread, wood and nails, 12' x 12' x 12'

Plexus no.11, 2011
Site specific installation at East Wing X, 
gütermann thread, painted wood and hooks, dimensions variable

Gabriel Dawe's work is currently on view as part of the biennial exhibition at the Courtauld Institute examining ways in which materials have been used in contemporary art.

East Wing X, The Courtauld, Somerset House, London, 20 January - July 2013

Gabriel Dawe | Plexus C2 at Long Beach Performing Arts Center

Tuesday, 24 July 2012

Tuesday, 17 July 2012

Monday, 16 July 2012

George Herms

Delusional Shift, 2010
Collage on Paper, 14 x 11 inches

 Snow Job IV, 2011
Collage on paper, 26 x 20 inches

Sann Diego Rose XI
Collage on paper, 26 x 20 inches

Delusional Shift, 2010
Collage on paper, 14 x 11 inches

Since the late 1950s, George Herms has been a central figure in the development of the West Coast assemblage aesthetic. Influenced by the Beat generation more attuned to the musical nuance of the everyday than the modernist requiem to order, Herms’s commitment to counterculture is expressed through his repurposing of used materials and his rejection of compositional structures in favor of loose associations of objects and ideas. Herms salvages elements from the trash heap of popular culture, combining them with words and phrases to create final entities that are neither pure thought, nor pure object—they are both prop and proposition. At times, Herms has been associated with landmarks of the developing L.A. art scene—Wallace Berman and Semina, Walter Hopps and the Ferus Gallery, Dennis Hopper and the film culture of Easy Rider—but his art has refused any singular identification. An advocate of all things free—spirit, material, and love—Herms is the spiritual godfather to an art of the unknown, forging something out of nothing, which continues to be a driving compulsion of artists today.

George Herms, Xenophilia (Love of the Unknown), MOCA, 2011 
George Herms, OHWOW

Wednesday, 11 July 2012