Jennifer Spears

In 1980, Darby Crash, lead singer of the Los Angeles punk band, the Germs, died from an intentional overdose at the age of 22. In his suicide note, Crash confessed his love for fellow bandmate, David 'Bosco' Danford.

Later, Crash’s friend, Casey Cola, with whom he’d made his death pact with (she survived) recalled their last night together— “...He wrote a note, which he didn't show me, but which I think said, 'My life, my leather, my love goes to Bosco.’ … He held me up for a second... laid himself against the wall and pulled me to him… And then he kissed me and said, 'Well, 'bye.’”

For the duration of the exhibition, the public is invited to share mementos and ephemera relating to experiences of addiction, harm reduction, and/or grief within the enclosed bulletin board outside of LACA. These items will be collected and archived in an ongoing collection dedicated to harm reduction practices.

Jennifer Shear (b. 1987 Taipei, Taiwan) is an interdisciplinary artist living in New Jersey. While predominantly working in collage and found media, her practice locates a personal relationship to archive, desire, longing, and visual culture. In recent years, she’s exhibited with Picture Room (Brooklyn, NY), Gern En Regalia (New York, NY), Anytime Dept. (Cincinnati, OH), Low Rence (San Francisco, CA), Commune (Tokyo, Japan), Interstate Projects (Brooklyn, NY), and Yale Union (Portland, OR). She has also collaborated with NIAD Art Center (Richmond, CA), 356 Mission (Los Angeles, CA), 2727 California Street (Berkeley, CA), The LA Art Book Fair’s Classroom Space (Los Angeles, CA), Wide Rainbow (Los Angeles, CA), and co-organized the Rutgers Visiting Artist Lecture Series from 2021-2022.