Juliane Hundertmark

James Wright Gallery is pleased to present Natural Behavior, Juliane Hundertmark’s first Los Angeles solo exhibition.

A theatrical display of three bodies of work that reveal the dark comedy of consumerism through distorted depictions of an imagined reality.

In this exhibition she combines her series Pool Paintings, Road Trip, and American Diner to playfully critique cultural trauma, by heavily incorporating familiar settings for Hollywood personalities. Temporarily occupied spaces for a narrative preserves a fantasy, acting as a stage for an inexhaustible desire for seeking pleasure. These contorted dreamscapes coincide with destroying perceptions of Western culture’s influence on manufactured nostalgia and abstracted truisms. Prominently inspired by George Grosz’s character works during the Dada movement, Hundertmark embraces the freedom of impersonating reality with underlying despair and emotion hidden under the skin.