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Curated by Max Presneill

 

Artists:

Juan Aizpitarte	Steven Bankhead	Sandow Birk	Olafur Eliasson

Johnston Foster	Shaun Gladwell	Lia Halloran	Andrew Lewicki

Lauren Madow

	Jenene Nagy	Albert Oehlen	Andrew Lewicki

Paul Rusconi	Matthew Schenning	Josh Smith	Thaddeus Strode

Katharina Grosse	Peter Zimmermann

 

The Rise of RAD: BODY-MOTION-SPACE-ARCHITECTURE

July 24 - September 4, 2010

Erupting from the Californian surf scene of the 1960s and branching out into music, language, street art and street clothing, skateboard culture has spanned the globe with its focus on individuality, freedom and a transgressive mixture of sport and play. This exhibition's focus is on contemporary art that can trace its roots to this sub-culture-gone-mainstream, exploring urban architecture, resistance, and the core values of the skate phenomenon through the matrix of urban theory and politics. It utilizes theoretical, historical, sociological and contemporary art facets to explore how a Californian children's toy went through technological advances that led to a revolution throughout youth culture and, in turn, spread to the world and impacted culture from the street to the museum.

Artists often take inspiration from their own youth subcultures – even in general culture skateboarding has subconsciously made itself part of the air breathed here in SoCal and elsewhere across the world. When artists look at skateboarding they see the implications of the activity – political, sociological, psychological, etc and can react to this, to build on the meaning of it, the content, to look at wider issues. The physical engagement with the activity of skateboarding, as well as the immersion in the subcultures that it generates – with all of its implicit profiles of rebellion, individuality, freedom and separation from mainstream society – can and does create an infrastructure of interpretation of Being. This includes a variety of things in the world, by necessity of course, ranging from the methodology of spatial movement and interaction within the architecture of the urban environment to the idealization of the Self as essentially existential and isolated.

The physiological extremes that the body itself is forced into, with its moments of exhilarating danger, the triumph of will over gravity that heightens the perceptual moment, the adrenaline rush of speed all become inextricably linked to untheorized but present aspects of engagement between the inner self and ones surroundings. All that is needed is the soundtrack and the act of skateboarding becomes its own mythology of experience for the practitioner – one that is shaped by the nexus point where lifestyle, sense of self, motion, movement and the mechanics by which this achieved come together.

Max Presneill
2010

 

This exhibition is made possible with the generous support of:

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There Is Xerox On The Inside Of Your Eyelids
Curated by Rich Jacobs

 

There Is Xerox On The Inside Of Your Eyelids is an exhibition exploring the realm of 1980's self published skate zines, skate punk music graphics, and photocopied art from a small window of time - where local skate scenes, and spots, were documented, hand done, copied & stapled, and traded in the post. It is not only an exhibition of the aesthetics and graphic elements of zines, but also a historical look at the true history of skateboarding from the mouths of the skaters themselves.

 

Artists:

Bruce Adams, James Alder, Gabs Bee, Rob Ben, Neil Blender, J. Grant Brittain, Brian Brannon, Rodger Bridges, Dana Bucket, Steve Caballero, Ron Cameron, Thomas Campbel, Phread Conrad, Gary Davis, Wes Dean, John Dettman-Lytle, Pete Diantoni, Phil E, Dan Estabrook, Phil Franklin, John Freeborn, Briant Hull, Donny Humes, Rich Jacobs, Andy Jenkins, Chris Johanson, Spike Jonze, Tim Kerr, Randy Kliway, Christian Kline, Alberto Kroeger, Sussane Lapper, Bernie McGinn, Mofo, Lance Mountain, Herb Nauman, O, Corey and Gavin O'Brien, John Reed, Dennis Remsing, Brian Ridgeway, Salbug, Christ Shary, Jeremy Smith, Ray Stevens, Tod Swank, Ed Templeton, Randy 'Biscuit' Turner, Miki Vucovich, Adam Wallacavage, Bryan Wendzel, Jacko Weyland, Andrew Jefferey Wright, Tobin Yelland and many more...

 

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