Tom Texas Holmes
dal 13/6/2002 al 14/6/2002
Segnalato da
13/6/2002
Tom Texas Holmes
The Hood Gallery, Los Angeles
The Hood Gallery is proud to present new work by Los Angeles based artist Tom Texas Holmes. The work has been specially produced for The Hood Gallery and in keeping with the artist's previous work merges minimalist traditions with appropriations of corporate design.
The Hood Gallery Presents:
Tom Texas Holmes
'Knud: The New Generation Chooses Freedom'
Private view Friday June 14, 8 pm sharp at:
The parking lot 2130 N San Fernando, Cypress Park
Directions From Downtown :
Take the 5 North. Exit on Fletcher (first exit after
the 2). Go east on
Fletcher. Turn right on San Fernando (just after the
underpass) and go five
blocks south. The parking lot is on your right
opposite the intersection
with 'Cazador' and an 'Arco' gas station. It is
located next to a yellow,
empty industrial estate - real easy to find.
The Hood Gallery is proud to present new work by Los Angeles based artist
Tom Texas Holmes. The work has been specially produced for The Hood Gallery
and in keeping with the artist's previous work merges minimalist traditions with
appropriations of corporate design.
The basic design of the colour fields that cover the car come from a pizza menu
of the sort that litter your post box on a weekly basis. It comes complete
with
prices, which have obviously been tampered with to heighten their role as
abstract components in this performative sculpture piece rifing on the history
of design, custom car culture, pop and photo collage.
The pizza abstractions are coupled with a Russian text written in bright red,
reflective letters. The text clearly emulates the lo-tech, home-made-ness of
Bolshevik signage used all over the eastern block during the cold war.
Holmes use of a large photographic and self-adhesive image of a donkeys
behind would surely be deemed as utterly decadent by the very same
Bolsheviks, but it is in the juxtaposition between these elements and the
flirtation with the tasteless that the work gains its meaning. Avoiding the
pitfalls of turning the gallery into Nascar Tom Texas Holmes balances
on the verge of the acceptable, but comes out victorious in show that is
both aesthetically engaged and daringly provocative.
For more information or images contact the gallery's
director and driver Per Hüttner on: pah@swipnet.se or +1 323 441-9593
WELCOME!!!!!
- The Hood Gallery instigates road rage, contempt, laughter and critical
discourse on the roads of Los Angeles County to further a discussion about
art and curation.