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Item Number: 129278
Title: AARON CURRY & Richard Hawkins : Cornfabulation
Author: Hawkins, Richard ; Stuart Krimko
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 97809899159814
Description: Los Angeles: David Kordansky Gallery, 2013. 28cm., pbk., 128pp. illus. Summary: David Kordansky Gallery is pleased to present Cornfabulation, a collaborative exhibition by Aaron Curry and Richard Hawkins. Though both artists are originally from Texas, and Curry was Hawkins' student at Art Center College of Design in the early 2000s, the exhibition goes far beyond notions of camaraderie or shared influence. Works made by each artist individually, as well as by the two together, will be installed in an immersive environment that synthesizes their visual and material concerns. Collages, sculptures, paintings and drawings on paper, and hybrid works incorporating diverse media are juxtaposed against––and often made from––the elements that surround them. Accordingly, the upending of traditional hierarchical relationships between sculptures and bases, compositions and frames, and high and low cultural forms, becomes a recurring theme in the work. Cornfabulation, the exhibition's title, gets to the heart of Curry and Hawkins' willingness to forgo cosmopolitan restraint for a more down-home, libidinal approach to aesthetic invention. The installation consists of three rooms covered in cardboard 'wallpaper,' on which a cartoonish wood grain pattern is laid over colorfully graphic striping. While reminiscent of motifs recently found on sculptures by Curry and in paintings by Hawkins, the wallpaper replaces the neutrality of the white cube with the aura of an imaginary haunted house full of honky-tonk curiosities. It also finds its way into many of the works themselves, as either a framing device, a compositional element, or both. Collaborative collages combine small paintings of floating zombie heads and Japanese boys with fragments of screened cardboard; in these works, the patterning takes on a double life as both a pictorial and a sculptural agent.
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