Joe Sola “American Sex Room and Other Works”
Blackston
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Blackston presents American Sex Room and Other Works, Los Angeles-based conceptual artist Joe Solas solo exhibition of paintings and a sculptural installation project.
Joe Sola received his BA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and his MFA from Otis College of Art and Design. His work has been exhibited extensively in the US and abroad. He has had solo shows with Blackston, Tif Sigfrids and Happy Lion Gallery in Los Angeles, the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, among others. Recent group exhibitions have included Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, curated by Kerry Brougher and Russell Ferguson, at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Me Gusta El Plastico at the Museo de los Pintores Oaxaquenos, Oaxaca City, Mexico, The Studio Sessions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Mixed Signals at the Cranbrook Art Museum, and Hard Targets: Masculinity and American Sport at Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In 2009 he was commissioned to make a public sculpture for the Vancouver Biennale. Sola has been invited to perform at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, MOT International, London. His videos have been screened internationally, among other venues, at the The J. Paul Getty Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexio City, Mexico, and The Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba.
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from April 06, 2014 to May 18, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-04-06 from 18:00 to 20:00