Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects is hosting Shana Lutker’s “a.k.a. Public Opinion” at its home venue.Shana Lutker’s “a.k.a. Public Opinion” is the fifth chapter of her ongoing series —“Le “NEW” Monocle: The History of the Fistfights of the Surrealists.” Struck by the need for artists to arm themselves, metaphorically at least, Lutker has re-envisioned Breton’s glove as a talisman and a badge of confrontation. “a.k.a. Public Opinion” is a large installation of more than 300 over-sized leather gloves, each dedicated to an artist in Los Angeles. Starting with the sacrosanct hand of the artist and translating it into a clownish glove, Lutker offers a monument that is simultaneously a battalion of tongue-in-cheek weapons. Lutker began this body of work as an index of the history of the Surrealists in 2012. Works from the series have been exhibited and performed in galleries and museums in the United States and abroad. The artists represented here responded to a call to participate in the project by contributing a tracing of their hand. The gloves are arranged alphabetically and each artist is identified by a stamp of his or her initials.Shana Lukter has done solo exhibitions at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. and Pérez Art Museum Miami; the 2014 Whitney Biennial, and Performa 13 in New York, to name a few.In February 2018, Lutker’s work will be included in “Moments of Being”: an exhibition based on the writings of Virginia Woolf at Tate St. Ives, England.The exhibition will be on view from November 18, 2017, through January 6, 2018, at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, 6006 Washington Blvd Culver City, CA 90232.For details, visit: http://www.blouinartinfo.com/galleryguide/susanne-vielmetter-los-angeles-projects/overview Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition.
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