Andrew Bush "Vector Portraits"
Julie Saul Gallery
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Andrew Bush's seventh solo exhibition with the gallery is a reprise of our 1992 exhibition entitled "Vector Portraits" and corresponds with the publication of a monograph entitled "Drive" by Yale University Press. Bush, a graduate of Pomona College with an MFA from Yale University moved to Los Angeles in the mid 1980s and became fascinated by the car culture of southern California. He eventually devised a method of working whereby he attached a large format camera to the passenger side of his car and using a shutter release captured fellow drivers as they sped along the freeways. The subjects of the portraits represent a cross section of the American public; a middle-aged man happily cruising along the coast in his white Porsche, a young Hispanic male behind the wheel of a decommissioned Yellow Cab, and a sexy young blonde woman in a blue car, her head thrown back in a twilight landscape. The car becomes an extension of the portrait.
[Image: Andrew Bush "Family traveling northwest at 63 mph on Interstate 244 near Yale Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at approximately 4:15 p.m. on the last day of 1991" (1991) chromogenic print mounted on plexi 47 x 70.75 in.]
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from April 16, 2009 to May 23, 2009