American Gothic @ Gallery C

30 Nov American Gothic @ Gallery C

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Americangothic

Although this show is taking place outside of the OC, I wanted to mention it because it is being curated by Orange County’s triple threat atist/curator/nice guy Tyler Stallings and will feature a couple of artists I believe are on the fast track specifically Sherie’ Franssen and Lisa Tucker.

As an added bonus I hear that the openings at Gallery C are quite an event with plenty of food and the red carpet treatment. So be sure not to miss the opening this Thursday. More details can be found here.

A group exhibition of twenty California-based artists whose works share traits of the uncanny, mysterious, and the gothic that explores the dark underside of American culture. Drawings, paintings, sculpture, photo-based work and installations allude to horror, to biology gone wrong, to dark forces, to conspiracy, to madness, to monsters, to disease, to being afraid to fall asleep, to anxiety over losing control, to bumping into one’s own secret fears in hidden rooms and behind locked doors, to decay and decomposition, to an afterlife that brings us back to this life and to nothing beyond, and finally to shadowy, strange, wicked and perverse bodies.

The exhibition focuses on the body as a site where the personal and the public domains intersect. It is a return to a subject matter that was explored by artists in the late 1980s and early 1990s during changing cultural times, exemplified by the rise in the AIDS epidemic and the culture wars sparked by the NEA controversy over Robert Mapplethorpe’s and Andre Serrano’s artwork. Today, the cultural atmosphere reflects some of the same chilling effects.

The title plays off artist Grant Wood’s 1930 painting, American Gothic, which has come to symbolize down-home, small-town conservative values. It has become a talisman to protect the American way of life against a chaotic outer world.

The twenty artists in the exhibiton include:

Jane Callister
Clayton Campbell
Jennifer Celio
Lee Clarke
Brian Cooper
David Early
Sherié Franssen
Michael Hanson
Laurie Hassold
Joseph Kearby
Jeff Koegel
Adam Mars
Thomas McGovern
Rebecca Niederlander
Naida Osline
Jim Ovelmen
Victoria Reynolds
Clayton Spada
Lisa Tucker
Yasuko

Guest curated by Tyler Stallings, chief curator at Laguna Art Museum.

Gallery C
1225 Hermosa Ave.
Hermosa Beach, CA 90254
310-798-0102
info@galleryc.com
www.galleryc.com

Tues-Sat, 11-6
Thurs, 11-8
Sun, 12-5


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