Annie Wharton Los Angeles
8687 Melrose Ave
Suite B275
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Monica Nouwens, Jefferson, 2010, Exhibition Lightjet Print, Image courtesy of the artist and Annie Wharton Los Angeles
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Opens Thursday Jan 26 (5–8:30pm)
Jan 26 – Mar 9
Mondays–Fridays (noon–5pm)
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Directions: Inside the Pacific Design Center
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LA-Based Dutch photographer Monica Nouwens’ work examines the noir starkness of Los Angeles’ utopian dreams on the verge of collapse or rejuvenation. Her painterly approach to lighting and the figure reveals an optical unconsciousness through images that provoke understanding of the relationships between people and their metropolitan environment. Within this urban organism she has always been fascinated by LA’s free, or at least non-marketable, subcultures that operate outside the standard economic structure. In “Martin Luther King Bullet Wound Boulevard,” Nouwens nimbly infiltrates and captures a subculture of urban youth who seem to have withdrawn from the dominant consumer culture, shaping a more personal, small-scale alternative. By depicting their activities and parties and sharing their social dreams, her images of this community in turmoil show the need for a poetic alternative. Her works are a complex amalgamation of roughness, sensuality, and the ephemeral, emotional moments that create a fragile but timeless document of the human condition. Jason Trucco is recognized internationally for his creative use of interactive media and storytelling in music videos, installations, and performance. A conceptual artist who utilizes narrative, performance, sound, photography, drawing, architecture, film, data, and interactivity, he explores a range of modalities to form “Exhibit A,” a thought-provoking and at times haunting exhibition. Be they Mulholland Drive desert-scapes or interior views, the elaborately technical interactive video projects he’s created for the exhibition each evoke eerie and anachronistic cinematic and hyper-real qualities. He has also collaborated with other contemporary artists to create several works for the show.
