This journal is a documentation of art and cultural events I have experienced while living in New Zealand and Las Vegas, Nevada, and on my travels. I particularly enjoy sharing alternative culture which doesn't always get a lot of media coverage.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Martin Luther King Day at LACMA




In honor of Martin Luther King Day, LACMA waived admission fees. It was also a fitting day to visit the Glenn Ligon retrospective exhibition simply titled 'America'. He has explored both race and sexuality and the top images here show a work he created as a somewhat conflicted response to Mapplethorpe's Black Book photographs. Below are a series of silkscreen, oil and gesso works, with 'Malcolm X (Version 1) #1', 2000 at right.

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I was born in Motueka, Aotearoa (New Zealand) and worked in publishing, layout and computer graphics before acquiring a BVA from Manukau School of Visual Arts in Auckland. As an artist, I work in the mediums of photography, painting, collage and performance art. I have also co-curated four group exhibitions: 'Sexhibition' in 2007, 'Prologue' in 2006, and 'Boganville' and 'Unleashing the Bogan' in 2002. In 2009 I received a Creative Communities grant to put together a photography exhibition 'I go where the party takes me' which toured Thermostat Art Gallery in Palmerston North, the Wallace Trust Gallery in Auckland, and the Sarjeant Gallery in Whanganui. In July 2010, Matt and I moved to Las Vegas, Nevada and established Couper Russ Studios LLC.

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