Archive: "Radial" 1986

Found postcard, plastic bag, plastic tape, sketchbook page, 9 X 5 ins

FB exchange: 

Will Amato: What was that when you made it? A formal exercise? Were there “ideas” of some sort accompanying it? I’m just curious. I was talking about your work - these early pieces of yours - to a friend of mine the other day and didn’t know how to explain them exactly other than they were “notions” you were putting down - like quick thoughts captured on the page.

DH: Long time ago - but yeah, spontaneously diaristic as ever. I knew that the tape would yellow, and the plastic was a sort of sad "archival" gesture, like it was a piece of forensic evidence I was obliged to attempt to preserve. I thought it was funny that some one would print postcards with a solitary car wheel- which appealed to my taste for Pop - but I was immersed in Jung in those days, and would have simultaneously seen it as a mandala archetype. Oh and yes, a formal exercise! Sorry you asked?

WA: Not at all. “Strangely enough” - if you know what I mean - I just posted a link about Jung and active imagination just before I read this.

DH: Mere coincidence! Keep your black tide of occultism in the high desert where it belongs!

Archive: When Danny Dosed Ronnie, 2013

Ink on paper, sketchbook page, 11 X 9 ins (documenting the first meeting of Daniel Hawkins and Veronica Lajambe, when V was convinced he'd snuck some crack into the herbal cigarette we were sharing)

Archive: "Burn in Hell" 2018

Ink and collage on notebook back cover

 

Archive: Space Baby (1999/2006)

Sculptural installation with painted found dolly blank, found aquarium, blue water, as seen in "space juice" Nov - Dec 2006 at INMO Gallery on Fifth Street. 1999 version was in a bathtub at the Farmer's Daughter during one of the pop-up One Night Stand shows.

Archive: Man Weeping as He Sniffs a Flower, 2017

Ink on sketchbook paper, 11 X 9" - part of the rather extensive Man Weeping as He Sniffs a Flower series.

Archive: Amanita Comet Entity, 1992

Collaged metal and cloth and spraypaint, sketchbook page, 10 X 7 ins - AKA Peter Comet-tail (for Gogo Godot)

Archive: Numbers/No Numbers, 2018

Collage and ink on paper, sketchbook pages

The Old King, 2019, acrylic on construction paper

 

Have You Seen Me?

Edition of 25 unique monoprint/painting/rubber stamp things. Originally I was going to tape them to lampposts, but decided to give them to those most prone instead. 

Dog Looks at Moon in Truck!

"Fear of an Abstract Planet A" (2016)

See my previously unexhibited face-to-face diptych "Fear of an Abstract Planet" (and other fine contemporary LA art) in a truck driven and curated by the inimitable Michael Gomez Burton TODAY! One Day Only! On the move! See attached schedule... oh wait it's not on there... "MAIDEN LA 2016," TODAY: Happenings and "Art-In-The-Street," 10–11 Gagosian Gallery, 456 N Camden Dr, Beverly Hills, 12–1 Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, 2–3 LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, 5–6 MOCA/ BROAD, 250 & 221 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles

UPDATE: Thanks to Lili Bernard and Marjan Vayghan for these action shots!

"Fear of an Abstract Planet B" (2016)

Collaborative Re-membering with Michael Arata

Lazy Susan
Titanik Gallery
Turku, Finland
3.–24.6.2016
Opening 2.6. from 6pm

The group show Lazy Susan curated by Kio Griffith and Ichiro Irie is the inaugural effort by the curatorial collective, QiPO. The show explores the concept of collaboration and its limits with the title, “Lazy Susan” referring to the revolving trays often found in the center of round tables at Chinese restaurants in the United States and elsewhere.

Two Unique Bootleg LP Covers

Available at the SASSAS auction!

M.A. Peers

Overcoming Excellence... with Ron Beegle!, 2016 

Acrylic on illustration board with press-type on found LP sleeve 

12.25 x 12.25

-- from a projected series of unsanctioned recordings of motivational business speeches, named after MA's 2002 show at Rosamund Felsen Gallery...

Doug Harvey

The Shaggs BUDOKAN!, 2016 

Ink on vintage bootleg sleeve 

12 x 12 inches

-- and an actual bootleg cover from the parallel dimension where I am King. Unfortunately the vinyl itself didn’t make it through the wormhole.

Space Baby in Space Juice at INMO

I have a sound sculpture, "Space Baby" in this show at the new INMO, formerly Eddie's Bar & Grill in the Million Dollar Rosslyn Hotel in the heart of LA's skid row. The piece was originally created for a One Night Stand at the Farmer's Daughter Motel curated by Mark Dutcher in 2001, where it was installed in the motel room bathtub. It's now in a silver aquarium.

INMO
114 West Fifth Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013 www.inmogallery.net

SPACE JUICE : November 26 - December 24, 2006

andreas angelidakis,
doug harvey,
soyeon cho,
IEPE,
marya kazoun
bora kim,
moon saeng kim,
chang wook lee,
marcos lutyens,
Nickel School > patrick shields & ben konen
Sandy.