Artists: Bas Jan Ader, Tom Allen, Polly Apfelbaum, Becky Beasley, Juliette Blightman, Vern Blosum, Joe Brainard, Mathew Cerletty, Leidy Churchman, Holly Coulis, Ann Craven, Sam Falls, Saul Fletcher, Jane Freilicher, Daan Van Golden, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Camille Henrot, Paul Heyer, Alex Katz, Allison Katz, Ellsworth Kelly, Caitlin Keogh, Kapwani Kiwanga, Robert Kushner, Jochen Lempert, Maria Loboda, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jenine Marsh, Ryan Mrozowski, Aliza Nisenbaum, D’ette Nogle, Andy Robert, Mark A. Rodriguez, Daniel Rios Rodriguez, Willem De Rooij, Melanie Smith, Dylan Spaysky, Kunié Sugiura, Walter Sutin, Kyle Thurman, Wolfgang Tillmans, Andy Warhol, James Welling, Tom Wesselmann, Hannah Wilke, Amy Yao, Nathan Zeidman
Exhibition title: A CHANGE OF HEART
Curated by: Chris Sharp
Venue: Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Date: June 4 – July 16, 2016
Photography: images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles
Note: Exhibition reader can be found here
A Change of Heart is an exhibition all about flowers. Directly addressing a subject matter that has always been historically marginalized as a subgenre, seen as little more than the byproduct of a charming amateurism, and minor art making, A Change of Heart embraces the floral still life in all its formal, symbolic, political and aesthetic heterogeneity. The exhibition seeks to mobilize and put into dialogue a radical and even dizzying diversity of approaches, including the queer, the decorative, the scientific, the euphemistic, the memento mori, the painterly, the deliberately amateur and minor as a position, and much more. To this end, the exhibition combines a broad selection of recent historical works starting from the ‘60s and the following decades up to a selection of emerging positions which address the floral each in their own way. At once quaint and absurd, the exhibition intends to touch, provoke and overwhelm through the concentrated and manifold complexity of its singular and timeless subject matter. The exhibition will be accompanied by a print handout of selected floral poems.
Chris Sharp is a writer and independent curator based in Mexico City, where he and the Mexican artist Martin Soto Climent run the project space Lulu.
Bas Jan Ader, Primary Time , 1974
Tom Allen, Trichopilia Suavis, 2008
Polly Apfelbaum, Pink Crush, 2007
Becky Beasley, Berlin (2007) (No. 1 of Peonies in Bloom Series), 2016
Juliette Blightman, February 2016 – Day 183, 2016
Vern Blosum, In Late Summer, 1961
Joe Brainard, Madonna with Flowers IV, 1966
Mathew Cerletty, Alison Brie, 2016
Leidy Churchman, 17th Century Face III, 2016
Holly Coulis, Mimosas and Citrus, 2016
Ann Craven, Roses (Morning Glory), 2010
Sam Falls, Nature Morte (Black Eyed Susan), 2016
Saul Fletcher, Untitled #02 (flowers), 1997
Jane Freilicher, Still Life with Blue Pitcher, 1980
Daan Van Golden, Composition with Roses (grey), 1970
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled” (Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein’s grave), 1992
Camille Henrot, Composition as Explanation, Gertrude Stein, 2012
Camille Henrot, The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing, 2014
Camille Henrot, The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison, 2014
Paul Heyer, White Lily on Pink, 2015
Alex Katz, Wild Roses (Study B), 2012
Allison Katz, Bouquet (Wax paper) No. 4, 2016
Ellsworth Kelly, Morning Glory, 1986
Caitlin Keogh, Flowers IV, 2016
Kapwani Kiwanga, Flowers for Africa: Uganda, 2014
Robert Kushner, Homecoming I, 2014
Jochen Lempert, Numbers & Figures (Liliaceae), 2015
Maria Loboda, A Guide To Insults and Misanthropy, 2006
Robert Mapplethorpe, Orchid, 1985
Jenine Marsh, What is love?, 2016
Ryan Mrozowski, Untitled (Pair), 2016
Aliza Nisenbaum, Fall , 2012
D’Ette Nogle, Flowers on a Table, 2016
Andy Robert, Reconsider (sunflower sunset), 2016
Daniel Rios Rodriguez, Pluck, 2016
Mark A. Rodriguez, Q-P2016 (good quality), 2016
Willem De Rooij, Bouquet IX, 2012
Melanie Smith, Collage 21, 2014
Dylan Spaysky, Independence Day Wall Vase, 2015
Kunié Sugiura, Orange Stack 1, 2005
Walter Sutin, Tree House Passion Flower, 2016
Kyle Thurman, Untitled (120 West 28th Street, New York NY 10001), 2014
Wolfgang Tillmans, inner city apple tree, 2003
Andy Warhol, Flowers, circa 1982
James Welling, 06241406, 2014
Tom Wesselmann, Delphinium and Daisies, 1989-1992
Hannah Wilke, Untitled, Jan 16, 1990, 1990
Amy Yao, Intercontinental Drift No. 2, 2016
Nathan Zeidman, Untitled (Pink Flowers), 2016
