Wes Lang "Here Comes Sunshine"
Half Gallery
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Cultural conflation is one of the purest forms of appropriation available to an artist today, bonding geography, myth and media among other fundamentals. In Wes Lang's exhibition, "Here Comes Sunshine," he extrapolates from a diverse range of tributaries: tattoo flash, memento mori, Cholo signifiers, Basquiat's oil stick, Mike Kelley's 13 Seasons, even a little Tao Te Ching. Competing influences here occasionally result in contradictory statements, a sort of paradoxical jamboree, where death is embraced - not as a hard stop - but as an eternal companion. It's a perspective from which simple phrases, by means of their repetition, can become something more than mantras. Herein lies the leverage of lyrical thinking.
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Schedule
from May 17, 2012 to June 22, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-05-17 from 18:00 to 20:00