UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles will exhibit works by Larry Johnson from June 21 to September 6, 2009.
The Hammer Museum presents the first full-scale survey exhibition in the U.S. of the work of Larry Johson. Johnson, born in 1959, is one of many important figures who emerged from CalArts in the 1980s. His unique style blends drawing, painting, photography, graphic design, and text.
Many works explore themes of Hollywood and celebrity, where aspirations and fantasies bump up against reality.
Texts are a crucial part of Johnson's work, either written by him or appropriated from disparate sources such as People magazine, pulp fiction, celebrity autobiographies, black box flight recorders, and rock lyrics.
The exhibition is curated by Russell Ferguson, Chair of the Department of Art, UCLA. -- www.hammer.ucla.edu
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