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8/2/2002

Exhibitions and Projects

UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

Exhibitions

You Look Beautiful Like That
The Portrait Photographs of Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé
February 9 - May 5, 2002

This exhibition focuses on the portrait photographs of two African photographers, Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé, both of whom were commercial portrait photographers working in Bamako, the capital of Mali. Their gorgeous, black-and-white portraits of local people were taken during the period before and after Mali achieved independence from France in 1960. Both Keita and Sidibe adapted the traditions of portrait photography to make unforgettable images that reflected his clients' personal style and social identity within the community. These are photographs of African subjects made by Africans for an African audience, offering audiences a unique opportunity to examine the role of portrait photography in the construction of national and post-colonial identities.
Curated by Harvard Ph.D. candidate Michelle Lamuniere, the show travels to the Hammer Museum from the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University.

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David Shrigley
February 9 - May 5, 2002

David Shrigley is a young artist based in Glasgow, Scotland. The exhibition includes drawings, photographs, and sculptures. Shrigley's work is funny, dry, and sometimes disturbing. His caustic take on the world is expressed through childlike, comic-book style drawings that combine text and image and which often depict the world as an absurd place. Shrigley embraces the paranoias, obsessions, insecurities, moral conundrums, and anxieties of contemporary life. He pokes fun at a range of cultural absurdities, from the British Royal Family to the art world itself.
Curated by Amada Cruz, the show travels to the Hammer Museum from the Center for Curatorial Studies Museum at Bard College in New York.

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Mirror Image
February 9 - May 5, 2002

"Mirror Image" is an eclectic look at some of the ways in which artists have explored ideas related to self-portraiture. In many of the works the line between straightforward self-presentation and the assumption of a more-or-less fictional persona is decidedly blurred. This exhibition seeks to explore this area of ambiguity. As in a mirror, the artists' images shown here are accurate reflections of their appearances, yet are often at the same time complete reversals, or alternate identities. Among the artists whose work is included are Mark Bradford, James Ensor, Oskar Kokoschka, Nikki S. Lee, Christian Marclay, and Robert Rauschenberg.

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Hammer Projects

Amy Adler
February 9 - April 28, 2002

Adler has long been fascinated with public figures--especially movie stars and musicians--whose mechanically-reproduced images circulate endlessly throughout our culture and yet whose private identities remain inaccessible to the public. In early 2001, Adler photographed the young actor Leonardo DiCaprio at her home in London. Adler's brief session with DiCaprio proved to be the very antithesis of a celebrity publicity shoot: intimate, casual, un-posed and spontaneous. Her characteristic working method serves to further undermine the conventions of the "celebrity shoot." Adler made drawings of the DiCaprio photographs, and then photographed the drawings. The drawings and the original negatives were then destroyed, resulting in six singular images that are each one-of-a-kind, the only remaining physical evidence of Adler's fleeting encounter with this elusive celebrity.

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Aaron Noble
February 16 - July 14, 2002

Inspired by comic book imagery, Aaron Noble's paintings incorporate super hero body parts morphed, stretched, and free floating in a 'negative space' landscape. He is known in San Francisco for his earlier WPA styled outdoor murals depicting the city's labor history. Now his interests involve contemporary popular street culture, Western comic art, Japanese Anime and Manga, video games, and technology. He will be creating a series of large-scale paintings for the museum's lobby walls. Noble lives and works in Los Angeles.

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Karen Yasinsky
February 9 - May 5, 2002

In the lobby gallery, Karen Yasinsky will exhibit a recent project entitled Still Life with Cows, which includes an animated video and related works on paper. Using hand-made dolls and sets, and stop-action animation she creates a surreal yet somewhat familiar environment where two female figures explore the everyday 'nothingness' of domestic life, desire and relationships. Yasinsky lives and works in New York.

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