“Flicker”

Control Room, Los Angeles

March 15th – April 28th, 2013

Installation view. Image courtesy of Control Room

Installation view. Courtesy of Control Room.

“Flicker” at Control Room in Los Angeles, presents a monochrome theme as its basic premise.  Organized by writer and curator Jan Tumlir, in the center of the exhibition stands a large structure, similar to a cage with work hung on its outside surfaces.  The structure seems to indicate something white walls could never promise – the stark cooperation between organizer, gallery, and artist.  It seems as if there is a lack of integrity given to the work but instead a statement rises on a conversation on whats light and dark; that what gives shape does not mean solid.  The work’s physical and temporal existence is put to question in this transient space – what is now known as “flickering”.

Mark Hagen, Untitled (2). Acrylic and iron oxide pigment on burlap over panel, 2012. Courtesy of Control Room

Brenden Fowler, Shipper in Jail – Holiday Season. Silkscreen on archival inkjet prints, silkscreen on frames, Plexiglas, 2012. Courtesy of Control Room.

Evidenced by some of the work, the monochromatic theme considers reductive processes.  One piece, a photographic work by Brendan Fowler, crashed in and through its framed self, perhaps to propose a path to art’s enlightenment.

This exhibition is organized by Jan Tumlir.  This group show features works by Justin Beal, Phil Chang, Eduardo Consuegra, Brendan Fowler, Mark Hagen, Nick Herman, Brian Kennon, Christopher Michlig, Katrina Umber, Kaari Upson, and Bobbi Woods.

For more information on Control Room, visit http://control-room.org/.  Control Room is open Sundays 12-6pm and by appointment through April 28th.

-Contributed by Hailey Loman