Exene Cervenka: America the Beautiful
DCKT Contemporary, New York
January 7 – February 11, 2006
DCKT Contemporary presents EXENE CERVENKA's first New York exhibition. On view in America the Beautiful are journals and mixed media collages dating from 1974 through 2005 by one of the founding members of the seminal Los Angeles punk group, X. The exhibition was originally organized by the Santa Monica Museum of Art and guest curators Kristine McKenna and Michael Duncan.
The exhibition features a selection of journals from the collection of approximately 100 that Exene Cervenka has completed over the past thirty-one years, as well as over twenty collages. Exene Cervenka’s journals combine rough drafts of songs and personal reflections rendered in a baroque calligraphic script with photographs, drawings and scraps of ephemera found while traveling as a musician. Similarly, the collages are created from found materials to form an interpretative composite portrait of the country she’s come to know through her life experiences on the road.
An icon of Los Angeles’s seventies punk scene, Exene Cervenka is known internationally for her work with the critically acclaimed band, X. Today she continues her musical career with X as well as in solo performances and participation in bands such as The Knitters, Auntie Christ and The Original Sinners. A visual and spoken word artist for more than thirty years, Exene Cervenka has also published four volumes of poetry.
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