 Simon Leung: Still from Surf's Up Surf Vietnam (Detail), 1998 Easy Riders David Hockney, Simon Leung, Bruce and Norman Yonemoto "Easy Riders" takes inspiration from the fertile confluence of filmmaking and art in southern California in the 1970s and early 1980s. The visual vocabulary developed by a groundbreaking generation of Los Angeles-based artists, among them David Hockney, Ed Ruscha, and John Baldessari, informed art films, commercial films, even erotic films. "Easy Riders" follows this language of desire in a small selection of artists from three decades, the 1970s, the 1980s, and the 1990s. David Hockney's photocollages establish a bodily presence in the midst of a dynamic, flitting visual field. His work has significantly informed the practice of many emerging and mid-career artists, such as Tina Barney, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Elizabeth Peyton, as well as the artists who accompany this exhibition. Bruce and Norman Yonemoto's 1980 film, "Garage Sale", features a number of L.A.-based artists of the time, including Tony Oursler, in a series of absurd vignettes about sex, desire, and anxiety. Simon Leung's 1998 video, "Surf Vietnam" in three parts, employs surfing as a bridging metaphor between the United States' western shores and Vietnam. Leung invokes a landscape of memory and myth that is as uncertain as his newspaper surfboards riding the Pacific. This exhibition has been organized in collaboration with Charles Scheips and Steve Henry, with special thanks to Gregory Evans. Exhibition: December 13, 2003 - January 10, 2004 Oliver Kamm - 5BE Gallery 504 West 22nd Street, 2nd Floor USA-New York, NY 10011 Telephone +1 212 255-0979 Email okamm@mac.com www.apartment5begallery.com |
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