TOO FAST TO LIVE, TOO YOUNG TO DIE is a selection of photography, art and ephemera from the California Punk & Hardcore scene with an emphasis on the explosive period of the late 70's and early 80's. This exhibition features both photographers and artists who were present for the detonation of the Southern California scene and whose imagery helped capture and craft it's angles, attitudes, music, fashion and sub-culture. Reflections of other punk scenes throughout California are included as well as contemporary collaborations inspired by one of the most potent and important periods of free expression in the California story.
Edward Colver has been a Los Angeles-based photographer for over thirty years creating some of the most iconic images of the L.A. punk scene early in his career. The retrospective exhibition and publication, "Blight at the End of the Funnel" was hosted by Cal State Fullerton in 2006 and the documentary "American Hardcore" featured many of his images.
Glen E. Friedman is based in New York City and is one of the most revered photographers of his generation. He work has continually captured rebellious individuals from the musical and youth sub-cultures. In 1982, he shot; art directed and published the influential punk chronicle "My Rules", one of the first comprehensive looks at the American hardcore punk scene. His work is in the collections of institutions such as Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Smithsonian Institute and the Experience Music Project Museum and been the subject of six publications.
Shepard Fairey is based in Los Angeles and is the founder of the Obey Giant street art campaign. Obey Giant was largely modeled after the D.I.Y., by any means necessary, ethos of punk rock. Fairey heard the Alternative Tentacles comp "Let Them Eat Jellybeans" in 1984 and was energized by the music including California bands like Black Flag, The Dead Kennedys, Flipper, and the Circle Jerks.
Jenny Lens, MFA, a native Angeleno, immediately rose to prominence with her first photos of the Ramones first west coast tour, August 1976, ending with the Clash, England, July, 1980. Her photos of X, Germs, Ramones, Clash, Iggy, Blondie, Patti and more are iconic, beloved, rare, treasured and highly collectible. Her solo book, "Punk Pioneers, When Punk was Fun," was published by Rizzoli/Universe. Her photos are extensively seen in or are covers of many major punk books, CDs, DVDs, docs, TV and more.
Dave Markey and Jordan Schwartz are the founders of the zine "We Got Power" which documented the Southern California punk scene in the early 1980's. The subsequent photographs it produced uniquely captured this important period. Markey's work in film/video created some of the most important documents of it's time and included collaborations with Sonic Youth, Raymond Pettibon, Nirvana, Mudhoney, The Ramones, Black Flag and many more. His films have been in festival screenings both national and internationally and recently were included in the Sonic Youth international retrospective exhibition, "Sensational Fix".
Raymond Pettibon is based in Venice, California and is a leading figure in the international artworld who sprang from the world of California punk and illustration and whose work is now in the permanent collections of galleries and museums throughout the world. His early artistic roots lie in music, specifically in the Los Angeles punk rock scene designing artwork for SST Records and bands such as Black Flag, The Minutemen, and Sonic Youth. He has had museum exhibitions at MOCA, SFMOMA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Malaga, Spain and many more. His work is represented by Regen Projects (Los Angeles), David Zwirner (New York and Sadie Coles HG (London) and has been the subject of numerous publications.
Winston Smith is a San Francisco-based artist whose roots lie in punk rock album cover design and collage imagery. His early work involves album art for the Dead Kennedys and has gone on to create over 50 record covers and has had numerous international exhibitions of his artwork over the last thirty years. Last Gasp has published a large selection of his work and he recently had a retrospective exhibition "Deep Dimension" in San Francisco, CA.
TOO FAST TO LIVE, TOO YOUNG TO DIE
Selections from California Punk
February 25 - March 26, 2010
Subliminal Projects
1331 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026
www.subliminalprojects.com
Directed by Josh Gibson, Tree Line Drive
(www.treelinedrive.com)
21 мар 2011
