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Installation View | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
Young Joon Kwak, Hermaphroditus’s Reveal I, 2017 | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
Young Joon Kwak, Trans-Creation Relic, 2017 | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
Cammie Staros, Soliloquy with a Chorus, 2018 | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
Cammie Staros, Leda and the Swan, 2016 | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
Kelly Akashi, Downtime Machine, 2015 | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
Kelly Akashi, Arrangement II, 2016 | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
L-R: Harry Dodge, Anarchy is the Mother of Order, 2016; Julie Henson, An Absolute Beast (Julie Johnston), 2017; Her Youthful Appearance (Victoria Osteen), 2017 | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
Julie Henson, An Absolute Beast (Julie Johnston), 2017 | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
Julie Henson, Her Youthful Appearance (Victoria Osteen), 2017 | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
L-R: Harry Dodge, Ideal Genie, 2016; Anarchy is the Mother of Order, 2016 | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
Harry Dodge, Ideal Genie, 2016 | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
L-R: Nevine Mahmoud, Butter Chin, 2017; Mother Milk, 2017; Ellen Schafer, Ambiance Apparel (--); Ambiance Apparel (0); Ambiance Apparel (intimacy feels); Ambiance Apparel (2); Ambiance Apparel (barcode), 2017 | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
Nevine Mahmoud, Butter Chin, 2017 | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
Nevine Mahmoud, Mother Milk, 2017 | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
Ellen Schafer, Ambiance Apparel (--); Ambiance Apparel (0); Ambiance Apparel (intimacy feels), 2017 | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
Installation View | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Mirror Study (4R2A0857), 2016 | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Draping (R2A7774), 2015 | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
Installation View | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
Isabel Yellin, Stasia, 2017 | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
Isabel Yellin, Longing, 2018 | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
Isabel Yellin, Sheila, 2017 | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
Isabel Yellin, Surrogate, 2018 | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
Installation View | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
Anna Sew Hoy, Utopic Void, 2017 | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
Anna Sew Hoy, Expanded Pocket Orb, 2018 | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
Anna Sew Hoy, Small Breast Plate/Tie Holder, 2017 | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
Installation View | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
Bari Ziperstein, Olive Skirt/Politics of Pattern, 2016 | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
Bari Ziperstein, Untitled (Wheat), 2015, Detail | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
Orr Herz and Roni Shneior, Finish the Words From Your Plate, 2015 | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
Roni Shneior, Holder, 2012 | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
Roni Shneior, Two Faced Holder, 2012 | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
Title Wall, Galef Lobby | All Hands on Deck, Ben Maltz Gallery, 2018
January 21 – April 22, 2018
All Hands on Deck
Kelly Akashi, Harry Dodge, Julie Henson, Orr Herz, Young Joon Kwak, Nevine Mahmoud, Ellen Schafer, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Anna Sew Hoy, Roni Shneior, Cammie Staros, Isabel Yellin, and Bari Ziperstein.
January 21 – April 22, 2018.
Opening reception Sunday, January 21, 4-6pm.
When bodies are being openly threatened, deported, and condemned, visibility is an act of resistance. Walking the line between abstraction and figuration, most of the works in All Hands on Deck foreground the body. Though each resists easy definition, together they solicit the persistent question: what are the limits of representation and legibility? The works present are conflicting images of form - familiar objects are refashioned into surreal surrogates and art historical depictions of the figure are challenged and appropriated as a means of reclaiming. Mary Shelley’s short novel Frankenstein provides direction: Shelley imagines a creature that is made up of a composite of bodies – mismatched parts, which have been carefully hand-stitched. Dr. Frankenstein’s labor is self-evident. So too, the artists in All Hands on Deck re-configure and conjure vital forms through material investigations and object scale.
From hand-built ceramics to carved stone; distressed ready-mades to hand-sewn textiles, each of the Los Angeles-based artists of All Hands on Deck engage the corporeal in an urgent, emotional, tactile and, at times, humorous manner.