L.A. Trash and Treasure @ Milliken Gallery

L.A. Trash and Treasure
Oct 19 – Nov 25, 2006
Opening October 19th 5-8pm

Participating artists: Jason Meadows, Evan Holloway, Sterling Ruby, Richard Hawkins, Tom Allen, Aaron Curry, Patrick Hill, Ry Rocklen, Gerald Davis, Gustavo Herrera, Mindy Shapero, Henry Taylor, Amy Sarkisian, Liz Craft, John Williams. Curator: Liv Stoltz

"L.A. is a dominant producer of the best art that’s being made today."
-Bruce Hainley

Milliken gallery is proud to present L.A. Trash and Treasure an exhibition with 15 artists from Los Angeles that have received international attention in the recent years. L.A. Trash and Treasure covers the contemporary Los Angeles art scene from 1997 the moment Lars Nilsson presented Sunshine & Noir (L.A 1960;1997) at the Louisiana Museum – the last time a major show was produced for the Scandinavian audience.

L.A. Trash and Treasure focuses on sculpture - which has a strong tradition in L.A. but features also drawings and paintings. All newly produced works illustrating the different tendencies existing in Los Angeles today. This show demonstrates a younger generation of artists and their relationship to an extraordinary group of artists spawned from the 1960s including Charles Ray, John Baldessari, John McCracken, Paul McCarthy, Mike Kelley, Bruce Nauman etc.

Instead of conceptual consensus, the exhibition presents different thematic lines that can be categorized with subtitles, Lost and Found (artists use and recycling of various found objects in high-low materials, The Fantastic (artists using archetypical fantastical symbols, popular culture, fantasy, horror) and Reconsidering History (artists referring to art history and reinterpreting different movements such as Romanticism, Surrealism and typical L.A. movements from the 60s for example finish fetish, light- and space movement).

In addition to the exhibition an extensive conversation between Liv Stoltz and Bruce Hainley will be available for download at the gallery website. Mr. Hainley is a writer, art critic contributor in Art Forum, Frieze, Cabinet and curator, based in Los Angeles and an active and important voice in contemporary L.A. art today.

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