George Horner Exhibition

Judith Charles Gallery

poster for George Horner Exhibition
[Image: George Horner "Enlighten Up" neon sculpture, 36 x 4 x 2 1/2 in.]

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Judith Charles Gallery presents a solo exhibition in the gallery’s Project Space by art world fixture George Horner. Having worked behind the scenes at Tony Shafrazi Gallery for more than thirty years, George Horner, whose art uses humor and wit to tell a personal story, now takes center stage with his own body of work that spans the past several decades.

Horner’s show primarily exhibits a combination of his letterpress posters and neon signs that incorporate text that was gleaned from personal conversations and overheard banter. The exhibition also includes personal drawings by Horner that are about making art where and when you can using whatever materials are at hand, and also pieces where he used gouache to make abstracts out of very graphic material from pages torn from 1970s pornographic books.

The show’s title I Gave You a Retrospective at the City Dump! comes from the very same sentence that George Horner’s brother breezily tossed off many years ago when Horner confronted him about what had happened to all the work he had carefully stored in their parents’ garage and that was now missing. Shocked and saddened by the revelation that his brother had truly thrown away all his art, Horner later found a way to use his brother’s expression in both a letterpress poster and in neon sculpture form to subvert the painful memory into something artistic as well as darkly humorous and cathartic.

George Horner’s work has been featured in Artforum, Art in America, New York Magazine, as well as countless other publications. His work was also recently exhibited at the San Antonio Museum of Art.

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Schedule

from November 04, 2014 to December 06, 2014

Opening Reception on 2014-11-04 from 18:00 to 21:00

Artist(s)

George Horner

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