“Lyrics and Dialogue” #2
ways in which language is used visually
Neil Wax: Abject Goods™
David E. Stone: Recent Disambiguations
Reception: September 2, 2007 6pm – 10pm
Show ends October 7
DAVID E. STONE is most known for his complex and engaging installations that incorporate images, visual, iconography or text in compartmental ways that unite into one cohesive thought – therefore compelling you to be pleased and at once inquisitive about art. Never a dull moment is surrounding the work of David E. Stone, and for this reason we are pleased to invite this new body of work, “RECENT DISAMBIGUATIONS”. A conversation went similarly as follows:
“Hey, David, isn’t that really another way of saying ‘Clarification’”?
“Well, actually, it is the achievement of Clarity through the Removal of Ambiguities.”
“…What exactly are you going to be showing??... I don’t know what the hell I am going to say in this press release.”
“Let’s put it this way, it’s going to be really great.” **
To date, Stone has shown scribbled out crossword puzzles from magazines, proposed rides for an unrealized amusement park called Ordinary World, large vinyl advertising banners of the signature of artist, Joseph Beuys, digital prints of the names of colors depicted in Braille, photographs of the La Brea Tar Pits at night… these are only a few examples of the variety of work exhibited so far. The materials used in his artwork have included gold leaf, digital prints, neon, ink, white-out, dirt, bronze, plastic water bottles, hard ground etching, lenticular trading cards, burned books to mention a few.
Stone's work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art in NY, Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He moved to Los Angeles in 2004 to present his art exhibition project, One Year in LA and has been participating in other projects as well.
NEIL WAX says, “As a young suburbanite, I fell in love early on with the noxious pleasures of purchase and consumption. It is of some relief for me to be able to literalize my bottled-up emotions.”
NEIL WAX is one hundred sixty-five centimeters tall and weighs sixty-five kilograms. Born in Philadelphia, Wax studied English and Theatre in New England. Upon graduating in 1997, Neil soon found work in the related industry of janitorial and sanitation supply. Then... nothing happened. A couple years ago, Neil bought a pickup truck, relocated to Los Angeles, and began making art.
Wax enjoys aphorisms, breaking his heart on the pavement, engaging in extended flights of delusional grandiosity, and can often be found spending his spare time harboring resentments and wondering why you are looking at him like that.
**Names have not been changed, but only omitted to protect the shamelessness of writing a cheeky press release. This is the 35th press release written by Gallery Revisited in the course of less than 3 years.
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