“Vintage Violence” Exhibition
Monya Rowe Gallery
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Vintage Violence will feature work that explores violence in complex and often personal ways. Works that are full of content and deal in discomfort, bad behavior, ethical quandary, embarrassing openness, power and vulnerability. They continue to find new forms for difficult subject matter. The organizers of the show see a connection to a tradition of difficult work: writers like Poe, Burroughs and Acker, artists like Francis Bacon, Hans Bellmer, and Louise Bourgeois, musicians such as Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Marianne Faithful, films of Claire Denis, Michael Haneke, Paul Schrader and Catherine Breillat.
Give me crack and anal sex
Take the only tree that’s left
and stuff it up the hole
in your culture
Give me back the Berlin wall
give me Stalin and St Paul
I’ve seen the future, brother:
it is murder.
- Leonard Cohen, The Future
George Rush received his BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts. This year he had solo exhibitions at the Canzani Center Gallery at Columbus College of Art and Design and the GAR Gallery at the Galveston Artist Residency in Galveston, Texas. He has received awards from New York Foundation of the Arts and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, where he is on the faculty at The Ohio State University.
[Image: George Rush (2014)]
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Schedule
from May 25, 2014 to July 18, 2014
Summer hours: Tuesday – Friday, 11 – 6pm. August: Closed. July 4: Closed.
Opening Reception on 2014-05-25 from 18:00 to 20:00