Posted on 28. Jul, 2010 by niki in Andy Mueller, Artists, Katsuo Design, Michael Leon, News, Shows, Tees
We are super excited to be involved in a traveling group exhibition starting this Friday night in Culver City.
Custom, limited edition tees were made specifically for the show from a number of the participating artists.
The show runs through August 20th and then moves to 0fr Galerie in Paris for September.
Come by and get a t-shirt before they’re all gone.
The opening starts at 7pm at The POPgallery
POPgallery
3505 Helms Ave. (@ National Blvd.)
Culver City, CA 90232
http://www.thepopstudio.com
Here’s the lowdown:
Template
a group exhibit
A man walks into a bar and asks for a drink.
The barman says, “Sorry, we only serve bar jokes here.”
“In that case,” he said, “I’m in the right place.”
I wasn’t there personally, but the bar joke originated in the Art Deco years in a pub called The Laughing Duck. Inside the pub was a strange architectural configuration wherein a low wall separated two areas, at the corner of which was a supporting pole that reached to the ceiling. This corner pole ended up awkwardly close to the bar itself. Legend goes that many a crowded night, the locals would simply sit-in-wait for the unsuspecting drinker – usually a new customer – who, upon ordering, would turn from the bar, drinks in hand, and smash straight into the metal bar. From one bar to another, so to speak. Sometimes shock would ensue, while others, drinks would fly, but the scene was always the same: a man walking into a bar, itself within a bar. Over time, the locals transferred the combination of architectural folly and its recurring accidents into various reiterated stories. Funny in-and-of-themselves, the stories turned into jokes. Somewhere along the way, the “man walks into a bar” joke serendipitously emerged.
“A man walks into a bar” is template for the stretching of language that the joke relies upon. With each new telling, the template of the joke itself is invisibly reinforced, while the definitions and combinations of “bar” and “man” are continually redefined. In this regard, the template is seen as both liberating and restricting. It can simultaneously be a container for free expression and a border that must be broken through. As such, a template is an edge for any test to pressure up against and through, which any terms can be redefined.
In this reading, a gallery is template for an exhibit, an exhibit is template for artworks, artworks are templates for a press release, a press release is template for a text (in which the flexibility of them all can be addressed). So forth, a text is template for a reader, a reader template for an audience, an audience template for a gallery opening.
– Yogi Proctor, Los Angeles, 2010.
POPgallery presents Template, a group exhibit featuring an international collection of artists. Most are known for their prints and t-shirt designs; Template presents their work in a new context that combines the two mediums. Each artist’s print will be cut into a t-shirt-shaped ‘template’ and displayed.
curated by Andrew Neuhues (www.skyrocket-studio.com)
Featuring works by:
Jean Jullien, Masakazu Kitayama, Yogi Proctor, Jason Groves (Shynola), Experimental Jetset, Gary Benzel, Andy Mueller, Steven Harrington, Michael Leon, Katsuo Design, Todd St. John, Supermundane, Tofer, Andrew Neuhues
Custom birch hangers designed by Shin Okuda
Limited edition artist t-shirts by 2K by Gingham (www.2kbygingham.com)
Opening Reception:
July 30th, 2010, 7-10pm
POPgallery
3505 Helms Ave. (@ National Blvd.)
Culver City, CA 90232
http://www.thepopstudio.com
on display through August 20th, then moving to 0fr Galerie in Paris for September.
Tags: 2K By Gingham, Andy Mueller, Katsuo Design, Michael Leon
