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Monday, January 31, 2011
GEORGE THOMPSON with DAVID CHOE / KNOWN GALLERY
The Seventh Letter and Known Gallery proudly present:
GEORGE THOMPSON - REVISIONIST HISTORY featuring new works by DAVID CHOE
Opening reception Saturday February 19th, 2011 at 8-11pm
Show runs: February 19th - March 12th, 2011
Known Gallery
441 North Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
310-860-6263
info@knowngallery.com
Sunday, January 30, 2011
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
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Saturday, January 22, 2011
Friday, January 21, 2011
Mark Visser x Night Surfing
Night surfing is eerie even in small waves, so imagine the sensation of careening down sheer and heaving faces measuring 30 feet, atop a black ocean, at a Hawaiian reef break so notoriously it's called Jaws.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Monday, January 10, 2011
Polaroid Hotel I Project by Patrick Hoelck
In a world full of instant there have been unfortunate casualties; Polaroid instant film was on the verge of discontinuation. A marvel of its time the simplicity was its pull. Press, flash, picture. Simple. Then the wait, the anticipation to see what you captured was a thrill that’s been lost with modern technology. It’s not just the nostalgia that makes Polaroids alluring. It’s the unpredictability. You never knew if you’d end up with a masterpiece or a disaster but it didn’t matter, it was yours.
I decided to pay tribute to the art of Polaroid photography with a book of images and an exhibition that capture intimate moments of my career through the years. I wanted to show that just because a certain technology has aged it doesn’t have to lose its appeal.
Here is an excerpt from the book’s foreword by Gisela Getty:
Hoelck’s images seem at first to be random, thrown together, an accidental assemblage, but they
provide a narrative of our cultural landscape, a series on contemporary urban life. The expressions in most portraits are introspective and skeptical, the girls seem to undress for no-one, the ketchup bottle is broken, a monochromatic image postulates CHANGE, juxtapositions of empty industrial places and self-referential youth, vulnerable, naked, Vincent Gallo frozen as a silver- star, a girl stripping down her nylon-slip, a dial on a wall, a kiss radiating a golden light streak, Hoelck’s images are always modern and now.
Friday, January 7, 2011
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
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