Rena Bransten Gallery
77 Geary St
415.982.3292
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Courtesy Rena Bransten Gallery
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June 2, 2010 – July 10, 2010
Tuesdays–Fridays (10:30am–5:30pm)
Saturdays (11am–5pm)
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“Poppers are the drug of choice for outré filmmaker John Waters. He confesses to once taking a huff of amyl nitrate on a roller coaster ride, and he stores several boxes of them in the freezer at his Manhattan apartment. He was sent a lifetime supply by a poppers manufacturer after he created a sculpture in 2009 of a super-sized bottle of poppers spilling across the floor. This piece, entitled Rush, is part of an exhibition currently at the Rena Bransten Gallery. Waters, aka "the Pope of Trash," also shows fine-art images of child stars smoking and collages of movie stars (in character) reclined in their coffins.”
Joey Stevenson, Flavorpill
Rena Bransten Gallery says:
"Rush" is a brand name for a popular nightclub liquid incense whose effects have been described as being "hit by a percussive thunderbolt." The same can be said for the subjects of Waters' photographs and sculptures that are embraced, attacked, and pushed to extremes under his transgressive gaze. Nothing is sacred as Waters rewrites and redirects imagery, culled from both the classic and despised in movie history, initiating these source materials into his own personal genre of shabbily elevated "art films." Also on exhibit will be a series of photographs taken from the movie set of Pecker, Waters' 1998 film of a young unassuming photographer who takes on the art world and its complicated relationship with celebrity.
