George Herms "Lymphatic Vessels and Monoprints Celebrating the Life and Art of Bruce Conner"

Susan Inglett Gallery

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George Herms was a founding member of the California assemblage movement and is one of America's great artists. Wallace Berman, Ed Kienholz, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and Lawrence Ferlinghetti numbered among his friends and peers. Bruce Conner called him a "spontaneous genius". The materials of Herms's art are not beautiful or rare on their own. They are the refuse of our civilization which are redeemed in Herms's hands, as are we. Asked to consider a rusted bit of twisted metal or the burnished leather of an ancient camera case, we can't help but turn a fresh eye to our world with renewed attention and appreciation.

George Herms made his first solo exhibition in 1957, a half decade later he continues to make transformative works of art and writing. Having recently completed a free jazz Opera, "The Artist's Life", Herms was inspired to make this series of monoprints using the instruments for which the Opera was scored, paper plates. Here the monoprints are accompanied by sculptures, or lymphatic vessels. Act I of the Opera is set in the Artist's studio. These lymphatic vessels serve as props, perhaps. The late Bruce Conner is present, certainly.

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from October 16, 2008 to November 15, 2008

Opening Reception on 2008-10-16 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

George Herms

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