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June 22, 2007- July 31, 2007
Reception: June 21, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Jeff Burton, Brian Calvin, Lecia Dole-Recio, Trisha Donnelly, Vincent Fecteau, Richard Hawkins, Roger Hiorns, Jasper Johns, Larry Johnson, William E. Jones, George Kuchar, Lisa Lapinski, Sturtevant, Mitchell Syrop
Casey Kaplan
525 W 21st StCurated by Bruce Hainley
Oh God how I hate penny in the slot thoughts and actions, and oh God what terrible harm they cause. If I live I will call my next and last book There is no penny and no slot and if you pinch that title or variations I’ll climb up to your window and give you nightmares. (This is a joke.) Anyway there is no penny for the slots. Not for writing or the black versus white question—the lies that are told—or for anything at all that matters. Only for lies. Yet everybody believes in the non existent penny and the invisible slot. So what to do? -Jean Rhys, from a letter, 1963
Jean Rhys’ novel, Good Morning, Midnight, was first published in 1939.
While I wish to pay homage to her novel, its staunch mood and mode, its indifference and bleak humor in an uncertain moment, in the show, which is no illustration, I also wish to consider any given medium used against itself and the rapidity with which one thing, form or action, becomes another. That said, there is no penny and no slot.
Jeff Burton lives and works in Los Angeles Brian Calvin lives and works in Los Angeles Lecia Dole-Recio lives and works in Los Angeles Trisha Donnelly lives and works in San Francisco Vincent Fecteau lives and works in San Francisco Richard Hawkins lives and works in Los Angeles Roger Hiorns lives and works in London, England Jasper Johns lives and works in Connecticut Larry Johnson lives and works in Los Angeles William E. Jones lives and works in Los Angeles George Kuchar lives and works in San Francisco Lisa Lapinski lives and works in Los Angeles Sturtevant lives and works in Paris, France Mitchell Syrop lives and works in Los Angeles
Art Reviews of Good Morning, Midnight
| New York Times July 27, 2007 | Holland Cotter | "This mostly Californian group show is the brainchild of the estimable Los Angeles-based art critic Bruce Hainley. And it feels a little like his writing: smart, buzzy, mordant, uncanonical, the kind of writing that makes most of the rest of us sound like uptight schoolteachers. In “Good Morning, Midnight” — the title is from a Jean Rhys novel — Mr. Hainley sends up a few thematic balloons, but he keeps them light and drifting...." |
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