Important Projects is thrilled to announce new exhibitions by Matthew Endler and Lenox-Lenox (André Lenox & Evan Lenox).
The opening reception for "New Work" and "Good Night, And Good Luck." is 6-9pm Saturday, June 29. The exhibitions will continue through August 24, 2013.
Gallery I
"New Work"
Matthew Endler
The finger had a comingling of scars on the same spot, signifying a repetitive task or a patterned friendship with pain. Pink and wrinkly, it rotated its axis and made a hard crease upon a heathered green envelope with fuzzy corners. A few seconds lingered and then crimson spheres melded into a growing wax puddle whose midpoint was coincident with the fold, and a brass cylinder gave it a good “sha-hoo-gan.” The red went from gloss to satin, came to a harden, and the brass released, leaving a Purpose: Sir Talliban Halliburton the Mobile, Gladen Gord of the Dongless Gain, And the Gainless Dad, Lost HardlyLong Gilden and Gaben of the Hads, The Hads Beens the HadsBeensYards and the Has Been Yards, Linkmater to Amidala Wishbone and fieldshoof beyond Hoods, Keepswater under GoodFortunous Kitty, Shamstack and Glowing from Glistenable lotion, Never-Listening founder and Finding-Tom-finding, and DiscountSmileReceipt in LostDocket. Full-Of-Life-He-Died-And-Full-Of-Death, he lives. Inside “Of the Was” T’was: It glared at the blakc pot, calling it blakc blakc [the finger that is pointing similiarly like a kettle]. Trophyhusband dies charred black and stung/atrophy, stains listening to song, and like a trued Gainless Dad, chatted at the fire. His rump stretched across X, across Y, across Z, across moving, and across moved, and moved forward, breathing and dying life Conclusion, but not before the brass cylinder was placed gently into its flocked holster, and the candle, having created this purpose, was politely extinguished.
Matthew Endler (b. 1989, Los Angeles, CA) lives and works in San Francisco, CA. He received his BFA with an emphasis in Painting and Visual Studies from California College of the Arts in 2011. Recent residencies include AICAD in New York and Galeria Miejska in Tarnów, Poland. This is his first exhibition at Important Projects.
Gallery II
"Good Night, And Good Luck."
André Lenox & Evan Lenox
Because it is my name!
Because I cannot have another in my life!
Because I lie and sign myself to lies!
Because I am not worth the dust on the feet
Of them that hang!
How may I live without my name?
I have given you my soul;
Leave me my name!
André & Evan a.k.a. The Lenox Twins a.k.a. Lenox-Lenox received their BFAs from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012. They recently exhibited a solo exhibition entitled Me, Myself, and I at Courtney Blades (Chicago). André & Evan are current artists-in-residence at Real Time & Space (Oakland). This is André & Evan's first duet in Pacific Standard Time.
Important Projects is located in Rockridge at 5432 Boyd Ave. Oakland, CA 94618. More information about our program can be found at www.importantprojects.net.
