Paul McCarthy's Low Life Slow Life: Part 2
Lower Gallery | Jan. 27–May 30, 2009
A two-part exhibition at the Wattis Institute curated by the acclaimed Los Angeles-based artist Paul McCarthy, Low Life Slow Life presents a diverse range of artists and artworks that McCarthy has worked with and been influenced by during his career. The second presentation of this exhibition focuses on the 1970s with an emphasis on the emergence of alternative performance practices, conceptualism, and video art. The exhibition also visits concepts relevant to this time period such as the rise of radical political organizations and artist collectives motivated by a convergence of the political and the aesthetic. Lacking a clean chronological break, the exhibition follows some of its thematic trajectories into the 1980s and 1990s. The installation will consist of an eclectic mix of books, images and artworks from such established figures as Jeff Koons and Chris Burden, to more obscure artists such as Howard Fried and Peter Kubelka, as well as materials by radical political groups and artist collectives such as The Move and General Idea.
