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Larry Johnson: On Location

11 June to 9 August 2015
Opening: Wednesday 10 June, 6.30-8.30pm

Larry Johnson’s first major survey in Europe, On Location brings together a selection of works by the artist (born 1959 in Long Beach, California) from the early 1990s to the present.

The show’s uncontested star is Los Angeles, the city in which Johnson has lived and worked all his life. For over thirty years, L.A.’s physical and imaginary landscape has served as the set for the artist’s photo-based investigations of the glamour industry, replete with fading stars and premature deaths.

Johnson's work bears the marks of a generation of artists sampling readymade images and texts to create seductively laconic pictures. Yet the colourful sheen of Johnson’s photo-based works is also a foil for sexual, political and semantic tensions. The artist’s pictures are encryptions of a Hollywood demi-monde, referring to the cultures from which his work emerges – queer, political, filmic and theoretical.

The exhibition is curated by Los Angeles-based writer Bruce Hainley, and by Antony Hudek, Curator and Deputy Director of Raven Row. Commie Pinko Guy, a publication edited by Hainley with new essays by Morgan Fisher, Lisa Lapinski, Hainley, Hudek and Wayne Koestenbaum, as well as reprints of classic underground queer writing, will accompany the exhibition.

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Bruce Hainley and Lisa Lapinski in Conversation
Friday 12 June, 6.30pm 

Bruce Hainley and artist Lisa Lapinski discuss Larry Johnson’s work and his longstanding influence as a teacher. Once a student of Larry Johnson, Lapinski, who was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial, creates complex sculptures which use the language of traditional craft and advanced semiotics.

Booking for Bruce Hainley and Lisa Lapinski in Conversation is essential. Please click here to reserve your place.

All events are free.


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