Older works like Incarnation, 2009 (which predated Lady Gaga’s 2010 meat dress at the MTV Video Music Awards) will also be on display. His art is like a fairy tale-cute and comforting one second, provocative and mystical the next.Īs the inaugural exhibition at the Kohn Gallery’s new 12,000-square-foot space, “The Gay 90s: West” includes new paintings, works on paper, sculpture, and an installation that will include Ryden’s largest and most ambitious work to date: The Parlor (Allegory of Magic, Quintessence and Divine Mystery), a 96-by-120-inch painting with a wooden frame hand-carved in bas-relief. Without a trace of irony, Ryden has never shied away from exploring notions of nostalgia and kitsch, and his work always hints at something much deeper beneath the surface. “The Gay ’90s” is a term invented in the Roaring ’20s that refers to the utopian image of American life during the supposedly simpler 1890s-an era untouched by world wars, economic crisis, and urban chaos. that’s a continuation of “The Gay 90s: Olde Tyme Art Show,” which took place at New York’s Kasmin Gallery in 2010. Los Angeles-based artist Mark Ryden expands his singular melding of high and low art, cerebral meditation and pop-culture camp with “The Gay 90s: West,” a new exhibition at the Kohn Gallery in L.A.
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