las cienegas projects
In Las Cienegas Projects and Guests, Wrinkle conceived of a site-specific project heavily influenced by- and taking place within- the formal dynamics of the building’s historical bow-truss ceiling. Taking a stance both personal and conceptual, he re-presents recurring elements used in past works—here, a lifetime’s collection of assorted pop cultural, music, skateboarding, art, film, and tv-related posters, all of which hung at one time or another in his bedroom of childhood/teenage years and more recently in past studios. Bypassing the white gallery walls and working directly up within the roof’s structural framework, he attempts to activate the beautiful-though slightly dilapidated- wooden ceiling form through its hybrid crossing with his collected ephemera, while at the same time utilizing the joists and the roof’s skeleton as a means of production and material placement to further reflect the aesthetics of the gallery space below. Other personally-charged artifacts also take on the literal architecture, including Wrinkle’s colocation of previously used studio and gallery walls, from his ongoing gallery project Dan Graham, onto LCP’s own project space walls. Planting performances into the project’s opening, he initiates a conversation literally from the ground up, ultimately proposing a language of context and content co-mingling. -Amy Thoner, Las Cienegas Projects 2010
Heroic Figure/Portrait, George Brett, 1978 Poster (Artist’s Birth year), 1978-Current Photo Courtesy of Bennet Perez
Heroic Figure/Portrait Detail, Photo Courtesy of Bennet Perez
Gallery Walls 1 and 2 from Dan Graham (Gallery) and Studio Site at 1842 Glendale Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca 2008-2009 as Support Structures, 2010 Photo Courtesy of Bennet Perez
Gallery Wall 2 w/Studio Wall 1 and 2 and Corridor Projection Wall 1 from Dan Graham (Gallery) and Studio Site at 1842 Glendale Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca, as Support Structures 2008-2009, 2010 Photo Courtesy of Bennet Perez
Installation of Hung Up Aesthetic w/ Ceiling Work and Walls as Support System, 1978-Current, 2010 Photo Courtesy of Bennet Perez
Hung Up Aesthetic, Artist’s Clothes, Shoes, Bed Sheets, Clown Doll, Crown and Mother’s Holiday/Misc. Knick Knacks Lathered in Gallery Paint, 2010
Hung Up Aesthetic Detail, 2010, Photo Courtesy of Bennet Perez
Ceiling Detail w/ Posters, 2010, Photo Courtesy of Bennet Perez
The Mirror Stage/Two Adjacent JVC Monitors as Media Pavillion Model w/ NIVEA (Alter Ego) as COURTNEY, One Monitor Unplugged for Reflective Projection Presentation, Video 2008-2010
Video Still Detail, 2008- 2010