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WES LANG
Here Comes Sunshine
May 17—June 22, 2012
Reception: Thursday, May 17th, 6-8 p.m.
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Cultural conflation is one of the purest forms of appropriation available to an artist today, bonding geography, myth and media among other fundamentals. In Wes Lang's exhibition, "Here Comes Sunshine," he extrapolates from a diverse range of tributaries: tattoo flash, memento mori, Cholo signifiers, Basquiat's oil stick, Mike Kelley's 13 Seasons, Tao Te Ching. Competing influences here occasionally result in contradictory statements, a sort of paradoxical jamboree, where death is embraced - not as a hard stop - but as an eternal companion. It's a perspective from which simple phrases, by means of their repetition, can become something more than mantras. Herein lies the leverage of lyrical thinking.
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