modular: New Art from Los Angeles
White Flag Projects
Participating Artists:
Hollis Cooper
Hollis Cooper
Danny Jauregui
Nicole van Beek
Louisa Van Leer
Kevin Wingate
Bari Ziperstein
Curated by Dana Turkovic
White Flag Projects is pleased to announce its third exhibition, modular: New Art from Los Angeles, curated by Dana Turkovic. The exhibition brings together six emerging artists living and working in one of the most important cities for art in the United States, and explores its radically fragmented visual culture that seems to simultaneously threaten its residents with the risks of the city spinning off into space or collapsing in on itself like a dying sun. Each work in the exhibit is set in the complex structure of the city itself, Los Angeles being the constant factor influencing each artist's work. modular is arranged as a kind of construction kit, assembling a structure of young LA artists working through the same social, visual, architectural and natural landscapes as individual artists producing work related more by shared experience than shared philosophies. Each of the artists embraces an IKEA-like philosophy of art-making: simple construction methods, cheap materials, all employed toward objects which are ideally modern and seemingly disposable. modular attempts to define a fragmented style which is manifest in the sprawling city of Los Angeles itself, synthesizing the languages of architecture, geometry, furniture design, and biology to express distinctly fractured perspectives and deceptively complex art.
Curated by Dana Turkovic
White Flag Projects is pleased to announce its third exhibition, modular: New Art from Los Angeles, curated by Dana Turkovic. The exhibition brings together six emerging artists living and working in one of the most important cities for art in the United States, and explores its radically fragmented visual culture that seems to simultaneously threaten its residents with the risks of the city spinning off into space or collapsing in on itself like a dying sun. Each work in the exhibit is set in the complex structure of the city itself, Los Angeles being the constant factor influencing each artist's work. modular is arranged as a kind of construction kit, assembling a structure of young LA artists working through the same social, visual, architectural and natural landscapes as individual artists producing work related more by shared experience than shared philosophies. Each of the artists embraces an IKEA-like philosophy of art-making: simple construction methods, cheap materials, all employed toward objects which are ideally modern and seemingly disposable. modular attempts to define a fragmented style which is manifest in the sprawling city of Los Angeles itself, synthesizing the languages of architecture, geometry, furniture design, and biology to express distinctly fractured perspectives and deceptively complex art.
