The White Album, organized by Gladys-Katherina Hernando
Richard Telles, Los Angeles
July 19–August 16, 2014
Richard Telles Fine Art is pleased to announce The White Album, a group show curated by Gladys-Katherina Hernando featuring nineteen Los-Angeles-based artists. The exhibition will present contemporary painting, video, sculpture, and performance that engages with the search for the transcendental in California. Influenced by quintessential aspects and industries of Los Angeles – the landscape, fashion, porn, mysticism, Hollywood, and remnants of the burnt out 60s –The White Album focuses on works that explore ideas of alchemy, animism, vitalism, magic, corporeal transformation, and wonder. These concepts are positioned together to generate a connection that exists outside of ourselves, in alternative modes of consciousness.
Inspired by the book and essay of the same name by writer Joan Didion, The White Album creates a series of subtexts that relate and play with one another in the attempt to recreate the formation of narratives and the sensation of the intangible magic that inspires these artist’s works. In her essay, Didion writes about the end of the 60s and explores various topics about California, from the opening of the lavish Getty Villa, the emergence of the Women’s Movement, and the importance of water in the desert, and invisible politics. Today there is another ending: the lack of grand narratives, the proliferation of images in culture, and the loss of the imagination of the future. Yet artists have returned to the exploration of the sublime and the metaphysical aspects of lived experience. Like the book, the exhibition focuses on Los Angeles artists dealing with a variety of subjects linked to the intangible qualities of the mystical and transcendental.
The exhibition includes Christopher Badger, Kristin Beinner James, Eduardo Consuegra, Alika Cooper, Dan Finsel, Mark Hagen, Daniel Ingroff, Barry Johnston, James Krone, Max Maslansky, Dianna Molzan, Laurie Nye, Fay Ray, Amanda Ross-Ho, Katherine Ryan, Semi-Tropic Spiritualists, Owen Schmit, Mary Weatherford, and Jonas Wood.
A publication will be produced on the occasion of the exhibition with texts by Gladys-Katherina Hernando, Lia Trinka-Browner, and Itza Vilaboy, and available for the duration of the show. On the evening of the opening there will be a performance by Semi-Tropic Spiritualists at 6:30 pm sharp.
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Installation view of “The White Album,” Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Installation view of “The White Album,” Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Installation view, “The White Album,” Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Installation view of “The White Album,” Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Installation view of “The White Album,” Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Installation view, “The White Album,” Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Installation view of “The White Album,” Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Installation view of “The White Album” at Richard Telles, Los Angeles
Installation view of “The White Album,” Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Installation view, “The White Album,” Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Installation view of “The White Album,” Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Installation view, “The White Album,” Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Installation view, “The White Album,” Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Installation view of “The White Album,” Richard Telles Fine Art, Martel Gallery, Los Angeles
Installation view of “The White Album,” Richard Telles Fine Art, Martel Gallery, Los Angeles
Installation view of “The White Album,” Richard Telles Fine Art, Martel Gallery, Los Angeles
Installation view of Semi-Tropic Spiritualists, Richard Telles Fine Art, Martel Gallery, Los Angeles
Installation view of Semi-Tropic Spiritualists, Richard Telles Fine Art, Martel Gallery, Los Angeles
Mark Hagen To Be Titled (Subtractive Sculpture on Additive and Subtractive Gradient Painting #3), 2014 Volcanic glass on anodized and etched titanium, in titanium frame anodized with Coke Zero 35 ½ x 17 ½ inches (90.2 x 44.5 cm)
Daniel Ingroff Parrot, 2014 Acrylic on canvas 54 x 40 ½ inches (137 x 102.8 cm)
Max Maslansky Pool Boy (Double Bed), 2014 Acrylic and bleach on bed sheet 75 x 53 inches (190.5 x 134.6 cm)
Barry Johnston Dance Book, 2014 Granite, “The sun is the size of one human foot” (Heraclitus) 16 x 24 x 3 inches (40.6 x 60.9 x 7.6 cm)
Dianna Molzan Untitled, 2014 Oil on canvas 24 x 20 inches (60.9 x 50.8 cm)
Dan Finsel Untitled, 2014 Flashe on paper 52 x 27 ½ inches (132 x 69.8 cm) Framed: 54 x 29 ¼ inches (137.2 x 74.3 cm)
Kathleen Ryan More is More Snake Bracelets, 2014 45 x 48 x 45 inches (114.3 x 121.9 x 114.3 cm) Concrete, rebar
Owen Schmit Go Get In the Water (Charlie), 2014 Color-treated silk and collage over panel 48 x 36 inches (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
Jonas Wood Untitled (Large Black Leaves), 2013 Ink on paper 40 x 40 inches (101.6 x 101.6 cm) Framed: 45 x 45 inches (114.3 x 114.3 cm)
Laurie Nye The Crystal Eater, 2014 Oil and acrylic on canvas 55 x 49 inches (139.7 x 124.46 cm)
Eduardo Consuegra Strick House, 2005, 2014 Oil on linen 30 x 24 inches (76.2 x 60.9 cm)
James Krone Misty Cherry #8, 2014 Perfume, ink, effigy, and fire on canvas 18 ¾ x 16 ¾ inches (47.6 x 42.5 cm)
Alika Cooper Top, 2014 Fabric, adhesive, wood 24 x 30 x 1 ¼ inches (60.9 x 76.2 cm)
Amanda Ross-Ho Untitled Still Life (FACEPAINT/TWO VIRGINS), 2014 Sheetrock, acrylic paint, graphite, ‘tie-dye” three-hole folder, vintage wallpaper, found images, acrylic on bond paper, laser prints, acrylic on nitrile glove, aluminum thumbtacks, plastic thumbtacks, maptacks, linen tape 41 x 32 inches (104 x 81.3 cm)
Fay Ray Hestia, 2014 Plaster, wood, acrylic, chair caning, palm ash 54 x 24 inches (137 x 60.9 cm)
Fay Ray Hestia, 2014 Plaster, wood, acrylic, chair caning, palm ash 54 x 24 inches (137 x 60.9 cm)
Kristin Beinner James Quince, Cabbage, Melon and Cucumber, 2014 Acrylic and wax on cotton 32 x 32 x 1 ½ inches (81.2 x 81.2 x 3.8 cm)
Mary Weatherford Eyes in the Heat, 1997 Seashells and paint on jute 10 x 17 inches (25.4 x 43 cm)
Christopher Badger Occulted by Clouds: Los Angeles California 1982-2013, 2014 Multispectral Landsat images obtained from the United States Geological Survey Single channel video loop, TRT 14:06 Dimensions variable
View of performance by Semi-Tropic Spiritualists, July 19, 2014
The White Album catalog
Interior view of The White Album catalog
