HAPAX LEGOMENA

a selection of works by

JEFFERSON HAYMAN
JO SPENCE & TERRY DENNETT
FRANCIS POOLE
MATTHEW BETCHER

Anniversary survey exhibition. On display during Photo LA, Art Los Angeles Contemporary and the Los Angeles Art Show. Conveniently located near the Art Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition in Hollywood.

"Part of the philosophy in my approach is that a work of art in the public realm should intrigue and engage a passerby into an exploratory investigation of the content and its relationship to the surrounding site."     - Alan Storey

Pictured at left: Near life-size detail from "Handle with Care" drawing machine. See inside for more details.

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An exhibtion of painting and photography that addresses the representation of the human body in an age of hyperconsumption and reabsorption / recycling of images, of material goods... of 'culture'. And examination of the visual role of the human body in a culture being consumed by itself.

Sidenote: All works in this exhibition portray the human body at life size or larger. Please bookmark this page and watch our updates to see more images.

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"The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects—making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing." - Susan Sontag

Domenico Foschi
Jefferson Hayman
Kerik Kouklis
Simon Larbalestier
Victor Milin

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Matthew Betcher

Photographs of the semiotic faultline formed by the uneasy confluence of urban planning and mass advertising media. It is only when the semantic fabric of advertising is caught with it's collective 'pants down' and the advertisement is missing when McLuhan's dictum The Medium is the Message can truly be tested and explored. Betcher's photographs capture the gargantuan scale of these sentinels in stark contrast to the inky Los Angeles evening with an ironic and philosophical sensitivity that makes the effect possible.

Francis Poole:

This study of the typology of the vacuum tube, much as the studies of Bernd and Hilla Becher accomplish, illustrate in the most controlled fashion possible, variables of design and delicate cities that might never otherwise have been noticed. It is only through the rigor of near-scientific controls and the 'disrobing' of aspects of presentation which might otherwise color our experience of such objects. They appear to take on a life of their own.