Exhibition	Superficiality and Superexcrescence
Artist(s)	Adler, Amy Campbell, Rebecca Gonçalves, Marcelino Halloran, Lia Huerta, Salomón Hundley, Elliott Kauper, Kurt Lassry, Elad McRight, Blue Morrison, Joel Newkirk, Kori Pulitzer, Tia Sullivan, Catherine
Title	Superficiality and Superexcrescence
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Year	2009
Decade(s)	2000s
Exhibition Dates	2009 June 27 - September 12
Curator(s)	Bedford, Christopher Newhouse, Kristina Wulffson, Jennifer
Description	Superficiality and Superexcrescence features work by Amy Adler, Rebecca Campbell, Marcelino Gonçalves, Lia Halloran, Salomón Huerta, Elliott Hundley, Kurt Kauper, Elad Lassry, Blue McRight, Joel Morrison, Kori Newkirk, Tia Pulitzer, and Catherine Sullivan. Conceived in opposition to the hard and fast interior/exterior dialectic that cultural theorists like Frederic Jameson have used to contrast the modern and postmodern eras, this exhibition offers a close examination of the work of thirteen LA-based artists who are variously committed to the notion that deep cultural meaning inhabits—as code, nuance, and implication—the outer husk of the people and objects that populate our day-to-day lives, remaking superficiality not as a condition to be resisted, but rather one to be analyzed and manipulated. For these artists, surface and substance are not opposed properties, but equally present. Accordingly, each of these artists focuses on what is latent over what is manifest, on implication over demonstration, and on faint whispers over loud, declarative statements, not with the aim of privileging appearance over essence, but rather to suggest that appearance and essence co-mingle in the surfaces that surround us to generate cultural meaning.
Notes	This exhibition is initiated and sponsored by FOCA, organized by OTIS Ben Maltz Gallery, and curated by Christopher Bedford, Curator of Exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University; Kristina Newhouse, Deputy Director of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House in West Hollywood; and Jennifer Wulffson, an independent art historian and former senior editor of the Bibliography of the History of Art at the Getty Research Institute.
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Gallery	Ben Maltz Gallery
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Collection	Ben Maltz Gallery Exhibition Archive