Crack The Surface - Episode II (Teaser Trailer)

Crack The Surface

Episode II

Episode two is on its way, this time featuring and focusing on several communities and individual explorers from the USA and Canada.

Filmed over six weeks resulting in over 1.5TB of raw footage from cities such as New York, Indianapolis, Chicago, Las Vegas, Minneapolis and Montreal.

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Printed Matter presents The NY Art Book Fair 2011

Printed Matter, Inc. presents
THE NY ART BOOK FAIR

September 30–October 2, 2011

Printed Matter, the world’s largest nonprofit organization dedicated to publications by artists, presents the sixth annual NY Art Book Fair, September 30–October 2 at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens. A preview will be held on the evening of Thursday, September 29th. Free and open to the public, and featuring more than 200 exhibitors, the NY Art Book Fair is the world’s premier event for artists’ books, contemporary art catalogs and monographs, art periodicals, and artist zines. Exhibitors include international presses, booksellers, antiquarian dealers, artists and independent publishers from twenty countries.

The NY Art Book Fair includes special project rooms, screenings, book signings, and performances, throughout the weekend. Other events include the fourth annual Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference, free to the public for the first time, and The Classroom, a curated series of informal conversations between artists, together with readings, workshops and other artist-led events.

A list of exhibitors, event schedule, and more information is available at www.nyartbookfair.com.

Printed Matter, Inc.

195 Tenth Avenue New York, NY 10011

Alëxone Dizac "Marrakechkia" solo exhibition at David Bloch Gallery

Alëxone Dizac
Marrakechkia

September 29 – October 31, 2011

Born in 1976. Lives and works in Paris.

Like his name the last three letters betray his past of been a tagger, the work of Alëxone is marked by the indelible mark of graffiti. He became known in the early 90s with his “oediperies” he realizes in the streets , that combine graffiti, and purified calligraphy.

Even now he seems to move away, there is always the stigma of the street in his work. She taught him what is not taught in art school and his work is even more rich. Over the years, Alëxone has developed a colorful fantasy world, populated by strange animals and characters which he pushes to the extreme deformity. His work is meticulous and detailed, the result of a regular and sustained.

Alëxone Dizac paint Bravery. Between words play and wit in the hubbub of happy fictions and the swirl of colors spread the spectacle of a molten animal society who heard the vox populi with a very demonstrative malice, if we quickly understand the hoarding multiple referents including graffiti, The Byzantine art or comics, we will guess that behind this depth Fantasia of a specific balance, the labyrinth of a frame on the bottom of playful rhetoric. Bibliophagous, the Parisian artist stretching out in a fine cotton softer. But the vitality of his painting could be the guarantor of the world … Colorful, comical scenes, variegated characters generate laughter and entertain. The artist delights to incorporate references to multiply winks, puns, to involve unusual ideas, creating a close relationship between him and the spectator who grasps the meaning. Alëxone recently participated in prestigious exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou (2008), at the Espace Louis Vuitton and Cartier Foundation (2009), who brought recognition “institutional” to his work and by extension of the urban art and graffiti.


His first monograph, “Cam A Yeux (Drug for Eyes)” was published in November 2007 published by Kitchen 93. A second monograph is in preparation.

David Bloch Gallery
8 bis rue des Vieux Marrakchis
40000 Marrakech, Maroc

Horfe & HuskMitnavn "FAKE IDs" exhibition at GSB

FaKe iDs
Horfe & HuskMitnavn

September 30 – October 28 2011
Opening night Friday 30 September, 6-10pm

A French graffiti giant and a Danish pop art pioneer meet in Copenhagen and decide to do a show together. At the same time in Stockholm, the debate concerning the city’s zero tolerance towards street art is more significant than ever. The exhibition FAKE IDs is the result of the artists encounter but also a commentary on the simplified and deterrent picture of both street art and its practitioners that the city wishes to present.


Stockholm’s zero tolerance for street art shaves the streets clean of creative manifesta- tions within 24 hours, prevents officials to speak positively about the art and opposes legal arrangements. In short, the city discriminates an entire art form, forcing artists to pass on their tradition in secret.


Danish artist Huskmitnavn and french artist Horfe both started their career by painting in the streets and they have encouraged a whole generation of young people to find their own creative style and personal expression. Today Huskmitnavn is one of Denmark’s leading pop artists and Horfe is one of Europe’s most renowned graffiti artists.





When seeing Horfe and Huskmitnavn you realize what amazing artists are coming out of street art. But it also becomes painfully obvious what the zero tolerance policy prevents, and how many artists Stockholm looses every day. GSB refuses to be part of this policy. Instead, the gallery celebrates the freedom of art and all the brave people who refuse to be deprived of their value as artists. FAKE IDs is an explosive show in which two fantas- tic urban artists shows the necessity of urban culture, and the tremendous creative power and creativity that exists within it.


Horfe lives and works in Paris, France. When he started painting he became known for his throwups and trucks. Though, today he is equally known for his expressive and detailed pieces. He has painted together with writers such as Tomek, O'clock and Sonic, and his work can be viewed all across Europe. Although being a big name in the graffiti world, Horfe is a newkid in the art world, but his talent and playful approach to graffiti serves him well, and he’s had great succeses with his gallery shows. His latest exhibition at Celal gallery in Paris sold out all works.


Huskmitnavn (b. 1975) lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a one of Den- marks leading urban artists and a pioneer within the new wave of pop-artists. HuskMit- Navn is most notably known for his controversial, humoristic and political street art but also works with paintings, drawings, sculptures and graphic design. He is represented by galleries in Denmark, Belgium and USA.

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GSB/Gallery Steinsland Berliner
Bondegatan 70,

11633 Stockholm, Sweden

Ferris Plock "Just For One Day" solo exhibition at Shooting Gallery

Ferris Plock
Just For One Day

Opening Reception – October 1, 2011, 7-11 pm
On View Through October 29, 2011,

The Shooting Gallery is pleased to present Just For One Day, a solo exhibition by San Francisco-based artist, Ferris Plock. This new collection expands upon the artist’s captivating use of ukiyo-e inspired design and vibrantly unique characters while exploring the images that shaped his childhood. The exhibit is the artist’s second solo show with The Shooting Gallery and will include over twenty pieces utilizing a mix of acrylic, gouache, gold leaf, and spray paint on wood panel. The opening reception for Just For One Day will be held at The Shooting Gallery on Saturday, October 1, 2011 from 7-11pm. The exhibit will be on display through October 29, 2011 and is free and open to the public.


Just For One Day brings the brightly colored and inimitable world of Ferris Plock’s imagination into the public eye. The artist’s education in creative writing and literature reveals itself in the continuous creation of new characters populating Plock’s work, fully developed through a layering of unexpected details. The serene and structured aesthetics of traditional Japanese styles are fused with a rebel sensibility and feature appearances by Plock’s childhood heroes, drawn from an assortment of cartoons, comics and commercials. Both the recognizable characters and the expressive-eyed, long-toothed creatures from Plock’s own mind are infused with unmistakable personality. A mischievous glint in the eye or a hint of a smile belies the true nature of the figures Plock crafts with a visible sense of humor, bringing new life to familiar faces of pop culture.


Sharply drawn lines and sparse, wood-stained backgrounds are a modernized recreation of Japanese ukiyo-e wood block prints. ‘Ukiyo-e’ refers to the primary genre of woodblock prints produced in Japan between the 17th and 20th century, featuring scenes of the floating world, scenes removed from the reality of daily life and focused on the excitement of performance and entertainment. The commonly depicted Sumo wrestlers and Kabuki stars allowed viewers to gaze into a world not tethered to pedestrian routine. Hundreds of years later, Plock’s work does the same thing for contemporary audiences, allowing us to live for a moment among the inhabitants of an invented world, revisiting that feeling of possibility we all knew in childhood- where anything could happen and all things could exist.


From the Artist: “"Just for one day” is a lyric plucked from one of my favorite David Bowie songs as a kid, “Heroes.” All of my heroes growing up were found in comic books, on TV, on skateboard decks, on album covers, and on cereal boxes. My work for this exhibition is based around some of the characters that I consider the most influential- I identified with the humor of Garfield, Bugs and Daffy, I had a mixtape that I made where I repeated LL Cool J's song "I'm Bad" over and over on one side and "Raising Hell" by Run DMC on the other side, Tony the Tiger was a cartoon character that hung out with real people and gave you sugar on your cereal. All sorts of different characters influenced me as a kid and helped shape my direction. I still love Godzilla, Garfield, and Akira. My parents were cool enough to let me explore my imagination and I have always thought the characters that were created in ukiyo-e wood block prints were some of the first cartoon characters. I love how Japanese culture incorporates new ideas and imagery but still honors the past... I feel like that is how I approached a lot of this work for this show... I gave a lot of attention to my own personal history but, also honored older styles of art work that I deeply respect.”

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The Shooting Gallery
839 Larkin St, San Francisco 94109

Chris Town "Randy Credit Ruins Daily Contrast" at China Heights Gallery

Chris Town
Randy Credit Ruins Daily Contrast

Sep 30 - Oct 16

Opening reception: 6-9pm, Friday 30th September 2011

China Heights is proud to present 'Randy Credit Ruins Daily Contrast', a new body of work by Chris Town.

Comprised of two parts, Chris Town's most recent collection of work exhibits his usual collage of impressive visual diaries, created from physical memories found during his travels and life at home.

The first part attempts to illustrate the contrast between a natural world, comprised of the pure, joyous hues of an organic landscape and the urban world, dominated by the grey grime of pollution. Made up of works that combine found object assemblage with painting in gouache, the seed for these works germinated during two visits to China in 2010. Town was struck by a city so incredibly polluted which had seemingly steeped in an eternal ‘overcast’ state. In stark contrast to this was the advertising - where packaging was soaked with such intense colours; perhaps a bizarre attempt to fool people into thinking they do not live in this intensely polluted world.

The second part consists of works derived from Town's observations of printed media. Imbued with humour and irony, these works poke fun at, mock, and revel in the daily servings of manipulation the media expels. By choosing an image and placing a seemingly unrelated, hand-painted, headline against it, each works assemblage creates a new, singular narrative; intended to entice, inflame and repel.

These two bodies of work, when placed side-by-side in all of their aesthetic contrast, form a visual commentary on what Town's world has become.

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China Heights Gallery
3, 16-28 Foster St
Surry Hills 2010, AU

Ana Serrano "Salon of Beauty" exhibition at Rice Gallery

Ana Serrano
Salon of Beauty

29 September - 11 December 2011

OPENING CELEBRATION
Thursday, 29 September

5:00 - 7:00 pm
Talk by Ana Serrano at 6:00 pm

GALLERY TALK AND LUNCHEON
Friday, 30 September
12:00 pm
Talk by Ana Serrano

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Ana Serrano notices the parts of the urban landscape that most of us ignore or might even dismiss as urban planning (or lack thereof) gone haywire. She creates small sculptures of buildings that cull together what might catch her eye on a morning walk: the hand-painted signage and illustrations on a local business, the blue and turquoise colors of a house with the cord of a satellite dish snaking down the side, or an auto parts shop adjoining a pink and yellow piñata store. In Salon of Beauty, Ana Serrano will enlarge these details in a cityscape of buildings that playfully mix together her observations of the unexpected and ephemeral nature of a city constantly being made and unmade by its residents.




A first-generation Mexican-American who was born and lives in Los Angeles, Ana Serrano studied graphic design and illustration. Since childhood she has been attracted to the bold colors, lettering, and hand-painted illustrations seen on buildings throughout LA’s diverse neighborhoods. Looking through photographs she had taken of a trip to Guanajuato, Mexico, Serrano recalled her fascination with the brightly colored houses seemingly built on top of one another across a steep hillside. She began to research other examples of “spontaneous architecture,” including the favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the terraced villages clinging to the rocky coast of Cinque Terra, Italy. In 2006, Serrano distilled her impressions into Cartonlandia, a five-foot tall cardboard sculpture of a “mountain” of houses, in which she incorporated images of doors, windows, and cars that she photographed on her walks around Los Angeles. Next, she began a series of small, highly detailed cardboard buildings, each one mixing aspects of the vernacular architecture in constant flux — changing store displays, an air-conditioner secured in an iron cage, and buildings re-purposed with a coat of paint — neighborhoods where people re-create their environment on a day to day basis out of necessity and cultural aesthetics.

In Salon of Beauty, Serrano will continue this investigation of the homespun and ephemeral nature of such neighborhoods. She saw the phrase “Salon of Beauty” on the side of a small mom and pop beauty salon, and was struck by its slightly awkward, yet poetic quality. Later she realized it was a literal translation of the Spanish phrase, Salón De Belleza, which normally would be translated into English as “Beauty Salon.” The circumstances of how she found the phrase and the word “beauty” resonated perfectly for Serrano in her hope to point out what she calls an “untraditional beauty,” things that in traditional visions of the orderly or pristine city might be cast aside as the “ugly” side of urban life. In her first site-specific installation, Serrano hopes to capture the experience of moving through a city in its entirety, full of all the unexpected moments and juxtapositions that form its neighborhoods.


Rice Gallery
6100 Main Street
Houston, Texas 77005

Mr. Phomer presents "RUN N TELL THAT"

Mr. Phomer

✦ RUN N TELL THAT ✦

Everyday life (de)motivational posters
solo show at Waves&Woods, LX,PT.
30/9 21:00h.

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Waves & Woods
Travessa da Queimada nº 36,

Bairro Alto - Lisbon, Portugal

Aryz x Public Provocations 3

Aryz for Public Provocations 3

Carhartt Gallery 2011

BÄST "Stumpy Gun" new print at The Outsiders

BÄST

Stumpy Gun

Available today on The Outsiders: all-new giant prints in two colourways from New York’s elite editioner BÄST.

Eriberto and Estevan Oriol "Like Father, Like Son" exhibition at Carmichael Gallery

Like Father, Like Son
Eriberto and Estevan Oriol

October 1 - October 29, 2011

Opening Reception: Saturday, October 1, 6-9pm
Please RSVP to rsvp at carmichaelgallery dot com

Carmichael Gallery is pleased to announce Like Father, Like Son, a retrospective survey of works by renowned Chicano, Los Angeles-based father and son photographers, Eriberto and Estevan Oriol. The exhibition will comprise twenty-five limited edition prints from each photographer, including black and white, color, silver gelatin and digital c-prints.


Whilst often distinguished by a complex melange of memory, emotion and intimacy that can manifest itself in equally terrifying and wonderful forms, the relationship between a parent and his or her child is a particularly unique human exchange and can hardly be defined in generalized terms. For Eriberto and Estevan Oriol, who are often cited as two of the most important contemporary documentarians of urban, hip hop, lowrider and Latino culture, the deep familial tie they share extends into and only serves to empower the unique nature of their professional relationship and the intense puissance of their work. Whether viewed together or apart, the Oriols' photography presents the multitudinous contours of Los Angeles and urban life through a piercing, visionary lens that lends a fascinating, almost hyperreal layer to the earthy, often confrontational authenticity of their subject matter.


Perhaps one of the most interesting aspects of the Oriols' oeuvre to date when considered as a whole, as in Like Father, Like Son, is its ability to complement and contrast the talents and purports of each photographer. Both are long-time observers of city life and the experiences of its inhabitants; Eriberto, whose understanding of shape, line and shadow are key features of works such as LA Financial District, 2011, The Thinker, 1974, and Need A Helping Hand, 2000, which define with gut-wrenching elegance the struggle and strength of the poor and homeless in Downtown Los Angeles and San Diego, form an effective and deeply affecting concordance with Estevan's depictions of these communities, who, in works such as Skid Row Body Bag, 2009, Chestnut Family, 1998, and Pepper's Shopping Cart, 2011, combines brutal honesty with rich sagacity to uncover a subtle, fleeting beauty that might otherwise have disappeared unnoticed.



Other series represented in Like Father, Like Son include the photographers' varied and illuminating portrayals of LA's lowrider culture, dramatized to distinction in Eriberto's color photograph Las Vegas Lifestyle Car , 2004, and the city's gang life, exposed in a singularly vulnerable light in Estevan's Bullet Holes and Stab Wounds, 2002, and Shaving the Dome, 2008. In addition to these and Estevan's portraits of celebrities, including Dr. Dre, Ice Cube and Dennis Hopper, both Oriols will present a selection of their exquisite, oft-touted photographs of LA women, from Eriberto's Traffic Jam 110 FWY, 2011, to Estevan's Erlinda, 2003.

There will be an opening reception for Like Father, Like Son on Saturday, October 1 from 6 to 9pm with both Eriberto and Estevan Oriol in attendance. The exhibition will run through October 29, 2011.

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Carmichael Gallery
5795 Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
USA

ART CAPSULE / Deedee Cheriel, Max Kauffman and Andrew Hoffman at Black Book Gallery

ART CAPSULE

Deedee Cheriel, Max Kauffman and Andrew Hoffman

Presented by Melissa Belongea

Join us this Thursday night starting at 6pm!
Artists in attendance

ART CAPSULE [Mixing the work of Deedee Cheriel, Max Kauffman, Andrew Hoffman & Chasing Rainbows] is an art exhibition project meant to bridge and connect Denver’s emerging art scene with national and international artists and the art hubs in which they work and live. Mixing visiting artists with local artists helps to foster cultural art exchange, collaboration and creative inspiration.

ART CAPSULE will be one swift night of viewing and party. Artists, Deedee Cheriel and Max Kauffman will be in attendance. Chasing Rainbows, an emerging art-fashion line, will have a small collection of work on display in the gallery store as part of the ART CAPSULE event. Come by Black Book Gallery September 29 to witness a mash-up of creativity and visual art.

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Black Book Gallery
555 Santa Fe Dr. Denver,

Colorado 80204

Interesni Kakzi - AEC / Waone "Objects of the universe" at AvantGarden Gallery

Objects of the universe

Interesni Kakzi
AEC / Waone

On Thursday September 29th, Avantgarden Gallery is inaugurating OBJECT OF THE UNIVERSE, a solo exhibition by Interesni Kazki, the Ukrainian duo composed of Aleksei Bordusov alias AEC (Kiev, Ukraine 1980) and Vladimir Manzhos alias WAONE (Kiev, Ukraine 1981).

AEC and WAONE have been the precursors of the graffiti movement in the Eastern European Countries and represent one of the most interesting proposals of the Urban Art world. Interesni Kazki, which traduced into our language could mean Interesting Stories or Interesting Colours, is the name chosen by the artists to sign their common projects.


The source of inspiration for the title of the exhibition, establishing a further signature of creative uniqueness are the subjects of their painting: the possible but sometimes also the impossible objects. As in a kaleidoscope, the shapes follow one another and float inside a suspended time, losing their original signification and adopting new meanings.


Their style of painting is composed of soft and warm colours, tending the sight towards the unconscious, and sometimes charged with social meanings, investigating between the changing and hidden folds of the human personality and revealing the interest of AEC and WAONE towards unknown aspects, but also treating subjects like religion, cosmology, numerology, science fiction and popular tradition.

Influenced in their semiotic approach by the famous cartoonist Moebius, the two young urban artists express themselves trough a narrative painting made of images full of symbolism where multiple reading keys can be found. Some of the artworks can also be put up side down, others can be turned from right to left, revealing every time new points of view.

Every single piece of work is a sort of rebus and contains a secret to decipher.

AvantGarden Gallery
Via Cadolini, 29
20137 Milano - Italy

Lyric Art: 200 Years of Warner/Chappell Music at StolenSpace

Lyric Art

200 Years of Warner/Chappell Music

Private View Thursday 29th September 6-9pm
show runs 30th September - 9th October

Song lyrics can evoke personal experiences, stirring powerful memories, images and emotions.

To celebrate their 200th anniversary, Warner/Chappell Music has commissioned 10 highly respected graphic designers to transform iconic lyrics into new works of art, far removed from their traditional associations.

The 10 new pieces provide new visual interpretations of well-loved lyrics from some of the most famous songs ever written including Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway to Heaven', Radiohead's 'Karma Police', New Order's 'True Faith' and Morrissey's 'There is a Light That Never Goes Out'.

The designers involved in the project are:

Yomar Augusto, Job Wouters, Till Wiedeck, HelloMe, Stefan Glerum, Julia Jung + Wenig, Michiel Schuurman, Paul Thurlby, Fanette Mellier, Nick Bell

In association with the lyric art, a selection of Warner/Chappell Music's hottest new talent will be playing in-store at Rough Trade East:

4th October: Ben Howard at 6pm / Dry the River at 7pm

5th October: Michael Kiwanuka at 6pm

StolenSpace Gallery
The Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane
London, UK E1 6QL, United Kingdom

Michelle Fleck "Somewhere" Solo Show at Park Life

Somewhere
New Paintings by Michelle Fleck

Opening Reception Friday September 30, 2011
Show runs September 30 to October 30, 2011

Michelle Fleck is a San Francisco-based painter whose work focuses on the relationship between man and the landscape. She is interested in our desire to replace what is old and dated, and how that manifests itself in the urban landscape. Influenced by everyday life in the city, her paintings serve as snapshots of an ongoing cycle of wear and replacement, showing our constant reinvention of the landscape around us, and the marks we leave upon it. Her hope is that these pieces have a sense of relevancy in a culture driven by a need for expansion, change and newness.

Fleck is from California and graduated from San Francisco State University.

Park Life Gallery
220 Clement St
SF CA 94118

Jonas Torvesti "Gimme Some" Exhibition at THIS los angeles

THIS GALLERY, Peter, Bjorn + John and MFG

are proud to present:

GIMME SOME.

Thursday, September 29th, 7PM.

Please RSVP to danceright.net/pbj.

When Jonas Torvestig was approached by Peter Bjorn And John about doing their cover for the 2011 album GIMME SOME, there were requests of sticking to objects of three, as all of their prior covers. And some thumbs up...

The fast paced tempo of GIMME SOME became the true inspiration of doing a design that had attitude like punk and garage rock but also communicated the direct feeling of pop music. Born was the morbid three thumb hand, colored in a pop arty palette.

About the time of release of GIMME SOME there was need of singles artwork. With an icon-like symbol for the album, it felt natural to use the hand as a template and alter it to brand certain song titles. Second Chance was the first, then came Dig A Little Deeper. From there PBJ and Jonas were curious to see how all the titles could look so Jonas set up to design nine more hands. Now, with a total of 12 hands, individually silk screened on several layers of acrylic, the artworks will travel with Peter Bjorn And John to some unique tour locations.

Peter Bjorn and John are a Swedish band who coincidently have band members named Peter Bjorn and John. They have been making fine guitar pop records since 1999, and one sort of pop hit called “Young Folks” in 2006. In March 2011 they re- leased their 6th album Gimme Some with an iconic album cover by Jonas Torvestig.

Jonas Torvestig runs his studio from Stockholm, Sweden. Providing art direction, and design in printed and physical form for the scenes of art, music, culture, and media. Focusing on the aesthetic aspects of communication, Jonas practice a creation process of contrasting concepts and their visual interpretation. Whether its art books, a new Ramlösa bottle, a pair of Hyde’s Spectacles shades, or a Peter Bjorn And John album cover.

www.peterbjornandjohn.com
www.torvestig.se

THIS los angeles
5906 North Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, CA 90042.

RIME & ROIDS. Detroit to Los Angeles

David LaChapelle "Negative Currency | Recollections in America" exhibition at PRISM

David LaChapelle

Negative Currency + Recollections in America

Opening reception: September 27, 7-9pm
On view September 27 - November 5, 2011

In his first exhibition at PRISM, David LaChapelle will show two series of work, Negative Currency and Recollections in America. In the series Negative Currency, LaChapelle revives a developing process with which he had previously experimented in 1990. Using the enlarger in a darkroom, LaChapelle used dollar bills in the place of a negative, resulting in a pink print that simultaneously revealed both sides of the currency. By rendering the image of the actual currency as a virtual negative, LaChapelle makes a direct correlation to the economic collapse based on artificial commodities and false capital.




In his series, Recollections in America, LaChapelle recycled photographs that were bought second hand in order to compose a neo-collage. The original photos from the Seventies displayed groups of friends meeting up for family parties and other occasions. LaChapelle then manipulated these photos by inserting additional objects and people, who otherwise had nothing to do with the original photographs. Firearms, flags, signs of American power, and young men are inserted into scenes in which symbols of America and alcohol were already present, preventing the viewer from discerning the authentic images from the fraudulent. Through his photographs, LaChapelle underlines the contradictions of class during the era of the so-called “American Dream,” above all middle-class suburbia, a group who continually experienced conflicted feelings lingering between pacifism and interventionism.


Seen as a whole, the works touch on the collective American consciousness, the charged nature of our current economic crisis and continuity between past and present created from analogies and inconsistencies.

Recognized as one of the most versatile and original photographers working today, David LaChapelle attended the North Carolina School of Arts, after which his career quickly developed in New York in the 1980’s.

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PRISM
8746 W. Sunset Boulevard
West Hollywood, CA 90069