Tony Oursler: Colors, Heads, and Organs
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
1 March - 12 April 1997
Margo Leavin Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by TONY OURSLER. The exhibition, entitled Colors, Heads, and Organs, includes three separate bodies of work incorporating video, sound, sculpture and installation art.
Tony Oursler's diverse and provocative art has consistently challenged the mechanics of contemporary American culture, specifically the way in which popular media (particularly television and film) have shaped society's perceptions of itself. Tony Oursler's work reflects society's obsession with media, while simultaneously investigating the struggle between humanity and technology, the trafficking of cultural lore, and the transference of ideas from the vernacular to the universal. Informed by the vocabulary of Surrealism, late 20th century performance and video art as well as cinema verité, Tony Oursler has produced a body of work that is engaging, entertaining, wry and metaphorically loaded.
This exhibition includes projections onto body organs; faces reciting urban folk tales projected onto ceramic and glass spheres; and a three part installation based on the primary media colors of red, blue and green incorporating found objects, sculpture, light and sound.
Tony Oursler's work has been recently seen in one-person exhibition at the Stedlijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, California. His work was included in the 1995 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Documenta 9, Kassel, Germany; and the 1989 Biennial Exhibition, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. His work is currently the subject of a one-person exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and will also be included in the upcoming Documenta 10. This is the artist's first exhibition with the Margo Leavin Gallery.
MARGO LEAVIN GALLERY
812 North Robertson Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90069
