Tonight, two shows: Angela Dufresne and Ron Athey

Angela Dufresne
UCLA Hammer Museum
July 29 - October 29, 2006


Angela Dufresne's large canvases depict imaginary landscapes populated by strange modernist structures. Dufresne's brushstrokes, painted with a loose, frenetic energy, add to the sense of alienation and anxiety her compositions produce, yet they also translate the forward-looking idealism espoused by modernist architects like Le Corbusier or Frank Lloyd Wright. She presents utopias gone awry in color schemes that range from vivid acidic hues to more natural earthy tones.

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Angela Dufresne
Detail of The Double Decker Random Play Residence T3000 Barkley by Roland Mutantes somewhere in Would be Bavaria June 2006

2006

Oil on canvas.
Courtesy of Monya Rowe Gallery, New York






RON ATHEY :
Video Stills
Set Pieces From An Opera

September 16 - October 28, 2006

OPENING RECEPTION:
Saturday September 16th, 5-8 p.m.

Western Project is pleased to present the first solo exhibition by Ron Athey. As one of the most important performance artists in the last twenty years, his work has influenced a generation of younger artists. Athey nose-dives into subjects and content which are visceral, challenging and difficult – the corporeal flesh, its possibilities and the knowledge it can reveal. His work can be traced from the historic lineage of Herman Nitsch, the Vienna Action Group, Leigh Bowery and Amy Semple McPherson.

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