May 19 – June 23, 2013
Opening Reception: Sunday, May 19, 5 – 7 p.m.

East Gallery

André Goeritz

Looks Back At You

André Goeritz Looks Back At You explores the distinction between direct experience and the idea of an experience through painting and sculpture. Combining painting and sculpture to form installations that speak to an overall holistic perspective, while their individual components tell different stories entirely.

Goeritz sculptures explores three main areas: the interaction between individual elements and the structures they create, how knowledge and observation is affected by perspective, and the modification of individual elements as they interact with adjacent components to affect overall structures. His paintings, while representational, attempt to leave the viewer questioning notions of authenticity, authority, and authorship. Goeritz also pushes the relationship between recognizable imagery with what he calls “topographical abstraction,”—burying imagery within a field of abstraction—topographically disrupting the privilege that perspective and certainty can bring.

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West Gallery

Kiki Seror

Hysteresis

Kiki Seror’s first LA solo exhibition, Hysteresis. Kiki Seror incorporates aspects of contemporary technology, sexual politics, language, and feminist perspectives on history. The artist is a devoted experimentalist who strives to address edgy topics with visual presentations and installations that are sleek and technologically polished. Seror’s work in Hysteresis asks, “How do we create communities? How do we create ourselves?” The photographs, based on animated GIFs, and her Chatroulette performance videos allow the viewer to envision a virtual sub-culture that far outreaches our in-home battles with loneliness and isolation. It seems to fall farther from surveillance art and closer to meditations on gender, self, identity and community. Her aesthetic is that of porn and video diaries heavily laden with sexual, personal, emotional and visceral elements that are so often shunned with that behind- the-curtain mentality. Seror intends to open that curtain for all to see.

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