Exhibition · The Box
An America
Sep 20 – Nov 1
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About the show
Gene Beery, Ed Bereal, Judith Bernstein, Stuart Brisley, Kathe Burkhart, Neke Carson, William N. Copley, Gabriel D'Annunzio, Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Agustin Fernandez, Ryan Forester, Cristos Gianakos, Wayne Gonzales, Oshay Green, Scott Grodesky, Philippe Halsman, Barkley L. Hendricks, Deborah Kass, Steve Keister, Richard Kostelanetz, Lee Lozano, Robert Mallary, Robert Mapplethorpe, Paul McCarthy, Morgan O'Hara, Stephen Pollock, Boyd Rice, Ira Richer, Kerry Schuss, Willoughby Sharp, Jack Smith, Dash Snow, Anita Steckel, Harold Stevenson, Banks Violette, Roger Welch, Martha Wilson, Alexi Worth
An America, is an exhibition curated and first exhibited by Mitchell Algus at his gallery in NYC. Traveling this exhibition to our gallery in LA, is an act of art world solidarity. And yes you are right in thinking that we just did an exhibition, Burn Me!, that was a politically charged show. We will continue. America needs to see this work now, they need to see political artwork that confronts the political catastrophe that is happening in this country. This exhibition is a collection of bold works both historical and recent that address the corrupt fascists that have run this country for decades. Trump is just the most recent, and in many ways the most extreme example of said fascism. Mitchell Algus and The Box choose to show this work and not shy away from the difficult political work being made and much ignored. An America is art exhibition as political statement. A political statement against the capitalist greed that drives much of the Art World, and much of the Western World we live in.
From Mitchell Algus:
The country is in crisis. The government is being dismantled by nihilists, conspiracy theorists, oligarchs and white nationalists who see our allies as our enemies. The sovereignty of other nations is being threatened by an administration’s imperial imaginings. We are becoming a surveillance state. Retribution, not unity, is now our national motto. And the galleries. We have a platform. We cannot be silent.
About The Box
The Box LA gallery, located in the Arts District of Downtown Los Angeles, started in 2007 and worked to create a unique art space–exhibiting work from artists with a diverse range of mediums, both historical and contemporary, many of whom have been unsupported and/or forgotten. The Box offered the public a vast way to understand the lost histories that need to be revealed and better understood.
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