Exhibitions

THE WAY THINGS GO

20 Nov - 20 Dec 2008 Python is a popular programming language that makes a chunk of our world work, but not always dependably. It runs youtube.com and is a staple of Google and Wall Street. It is named after Monty Python’s Flying Circus, and by tradition, examples showing how to use the language quote from Monty Python movies. By combining these snippets with others, the Monty Python oeuvre can help run a factory, model stock markets, or count “and”s on the Internet. Read more

GEORGE HERMS

LYMPHATIC VESSELS AND MONOPRINTS CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND ART OF BRUCE CONNER 16 Oct - 15 Nov 2008 George Herms was a poet living in Los Angeles. In the mid-Fifties when asked to read one of these poems in public, he was so overtaken by stage fright that he became a sculptor. Herms began to make objects on which to mount his poems so they might be exhibited rather than read. The process of writing and art making were remarkably similar in Herms’s mind. Cobbling together bits and pieces of little value or meaning on their own, he created an eloquent whole and a singular voice. Read more

CHRISTOPHER ULIVO | HARRY SHEARER

12 Sep - 11 Oct 2008 Ulivo, a would-be Adventurer were it not for the sheer daring and physical exertion involved, has assigned himself instead the role of top notch Adventure Enthusiast. In lieu of first hand experience, Ulivo draws his treatment of adventure and exploration from Hollywood, Penguin Classics, and a few dog-eared copies of National Geographic. As indebted to The Journals of Captain Cook as to Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom, the work takes on the mantle of modern day History painting, though on a somewhat smaller scale with much less drama and certainly no actual History. Read more

JACK *%SS

29 May - 1 Aug 2008 Lifted from the annals of MTV history, “Jack *%ss” takes its title from the eponymous American Television program featuring the stunts and pranks of a cast led by pop impresario Johnny Knoxville. Knoxville came to the public’s attention in 1999 when he agreed to test various self defense devices by being tasered, maced and eventually shot while wearing a bulletproof vest. Almost three decades earlier, the artist Chris Burden choreographed a performance in which he had an assistant fire a single shot to his left arm. Read more

THE BRUCE HIGH QUALITY FOUNDATION

THE RETROSPECTIVE 24 Apr - 24 May 2008 Susan Inglett and The Bruce High Quality Foundation are pleased to present The Retrospective, a project of The Bruce High Quality Foundation and its first solo exhibition with the gallery. Read more

GREG SMITH

ASTERISK 21 Mar - 19 Apr 2008 The asterisk is often associated with the fine print, the qualification, or the caveat. It also provides us with a fresh start in that mythic American way, tucking away inconvenient truths while at the same time keeping them close at hand for (possible) later examination. The asterisk opens just enough space so that optimism might breathe, with caveats. Read more

SHAUN O'DELL

WE REMEMBER THE SUN 15 Feb - 15 Mar 2008 Shaun O’Dell has devoted the past eight years towards the dissection of mythological and ideological narratives which posit Man as all powerful, a force of and superior to nature. O’Dell observes that the American self concept is inextricably bound to the notion of this nation’s strength and superiority whether in relation to nature or fellow man. He cites as examples Manifest Destiny, Native American genocide, slavery, the rise of industrial capitalism and resource extraction, labor wars, the world wars, Hiroshima, space flight, extending to our modern day presence in the Middle East. Read more