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20/11/2013

The Connor brothers

Guy Hepner Contemporary, Los Angeles

True love stories is the Connor Brother's first solo exhibition. It casts a humorous and penetrating glance at the cynicism surrounding relationships in the digital age. Each painting is simultaneously amusing and disturbing. "Franklyn and Brendan Connor have emerged to reclaim the barren no-mans-land between artists and the art world and in doing so, offer glimpses of a new and exciting future direction. Best of all, they do it with a wry smile" says critic Hubert Weinstein.

Twins Franklyn and Brendan Connor were brought up within a secretive and highly controversial cult known as ‘The Family’. Born out of the hippy movement in 1968 and founded by David Berg ‘The Family’ was an extreme Christian cult whose members believed in something called ‘The System’. As children the twins were deprived of access to information from outside of their commune until they ran away from ‘The Family’ at sixteen. Having been starved of information for so many years Franklyn and Brendan were initially overwhelmed by the outside world but soon developed an insatiable curiosity and a remarkable appetite to learn. Their often humorous work is steeped in references to both historical and popular culture and presents an almost anthropological view of contemporary western society.

Opening Thursday November 21st 2013 at 18 - 21

Guy Hepner Contemporary
2332 Centinela Ave, Los Angeles
Open hours: from Monday to Friday 9:30am – 5:30pm, Sat 11am – 6pm and Sun By appointment only
Free admission

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