TO HAVE OR TO BE

TO HAVE OR TO BE

July 28 - September 8, 2018
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

OHAN BREIDING
DON EDLER
JAMIE FELTON
PETER HALASZ
JENALEE HARMON
NICOLAS ROMERO
CAMILLE SCHEFTER
EMILY SUDD
ADRIENNE ELISE TARVER

 

Having and being are two fundamental modes of experience, the respective strengths of which determine the differences between the characters and various types of social character. – Erich Fromm, “To Have or To Be?” (1976) 

While a common reaction to seeing a thing of beauty is to want to buy it, our real desire may be not so much to own what we find beautiful as to lay permanent claim to the inner qualities it embodies… What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically possess, the objects and places that touch us. – Alain de Botton, “The Architecture of Happiness” (2006)

I’m interested in things which suggest the world rather than suggest the personality. I’m interested in things which suggest things which are, rather than in judgments. The most conventional thing, the most ordinary thing—it seems to me that those things can be dealt with without having to judge them; they seem to me to exist as clear facts, not involving aesthetic hierarchy. – Jasper Johns, interview with David Sylvester, (1965)

Camille Schefter local pick up only, 1973 El Camino 1 & 2, 2018 Ebay motors ad series Mixed media 39 x 50 inchesEmily Sudd, Motherhood Secret #3, 2017 Clay, glaze, glass, and collected ceramic objects, 8.5 x 4.6 x 2.25 inchesEmily Sudd Motherhood Secret #11, 2018 Clay, glaze, glass, and collected ceramic objects 6.5 x 3.75 x 2 inchesNicolás Romero Mexico, 2018 Oil and acrylic on linen 36 x 24 inchesJenalee Harmon Wacks for wax, 2018 Archival pigment print in polyurethane artist’s frame 30 x 32 inchesJenalee Harmon Towards a possibility of freedom, 2018 Glass, polyurethane resin, silicone, walnut, acrylic 38 x 33 x 17 inchesJamie Felton Expose the V, 2018 Acrylic and ink on canvas 48 x 36 inchesDon Edler Chaise/Massage (For Luxury Economies), 2017 Cast Hydro-stone, Crayola wax, Powder coated steel, Platinum silicone, high density rubber, handcuffs 68 x 22 x 28 inchesDon Edler Prototype Tablet 1 (Silicone), 2017 Platinum silicone, Crayola wax, powder coated steel frame 30 x 40 inchesOhan Breiding Still Life with Time Removed Edition 1 of 5 Digital C print 20 x 30 inchesPeter Halasz Old Roses II, 2016 Oil on panel 43 x 53 inchesAdrienne Elise Tarver Siren 2, 2017 Ink and watercolor on paper 7.5 x 7.5 inchesJenalee Harmon Fractal Play of Imaginis, 2018 Archival pigment print in polyurethane artist’s frame 36 x 31 inchesJamie Felton Snail Dreamer, 2018 Ink on paper 12 x 9 inchesJamie Felton Untitled, 2018 Ink on paper 12 x 9 inchesJamie Felton Untitled, 2018 Ink on paper 12 x 9 inchesNicolás Romero Mother, 2018 Oil and acrylic on canvas 24 x 24 inchesAdrienne Elise Tarver Untitled, 2017 Ink and watercolor on paper 7.5 x 7 inchesOhan Breiding Still Life with Octopus and Inverted Basketballs, 2015 Edition 4 of 5 Digital C print 20 x 30 inches