ACE Gallery
9430 Wilshire Blvd
310.858.9090
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Gary Lang: Atticus (2009, acrylic on canvas, 7' diameter). Courtesy of ACE Gallery
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July 18, 2009 – Nov 21, 2009
Tuesdays–Saturdays (10am–6pm)
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It's a veritable amusement park for optic nerves at ACE Gallery's Beverly Hills location this month, with a pair of exhibitions that vibrates both resoundingly and subtly. Gary Lang's suite of outsize, impossibly bright concentric circles seems to combine church architecture with country-fair spin-paintings. The technology of Jay Mark Johnson's space-age camera allows him to make fixed-point images that depict objects and figures over time, as though his lens were a scanner, aimed at the world. Some elements move and read more clearly — others, like buildings and landscapes, collapse into rectilinear striations. The overall effect is ironically surreal and abstract, considering the hyper-accuracy of the depictions; they fairly dare you to decipher them, so give yourself time to solve their riddles.
