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Inadvertent Rapture

Exhibition Dates: Saturday, April 18, 2009 - Saturday, May 9, 2009
Opening Reception: April 18, 2009, 7-9pm
Fluxco
2042 Bay Street, Los Angeles CA
(213) 239-4620 sites.google.com/site/fluxco/

Inadvertent Rapture

HK Zamani

Post-millennial dispensationmentarianism, or:
Inadvertent Rapture

Eric Bené
Dylan Palmer
Michael Perelman
Christopher Russell
Michael Shaw
Brad Spence
Ami Tallman
Andrew West
Nicola Vruwink
HK Zamani

Organized by Michael Shaw

April 18th to May 9th
Opening reception, April 18th, 7-9 p.m.

Black Monday. Black Friday. Y2K. A New Era. The Day After. The New Depression. The 2nd Coming. And the list goes on. Labels and clichés are nice; at least, in fitting with our fast-paced culture(s), they're quick and easy to digest. But there are other ways of viewing our world, both pre- and post-recession, that are deeper, slower and more unconscious. While art sometimes responds to its immediate climate, it often anticipates the fluctuations of the zeitgeist as if it sensed they were coming. At least we'd like to think so.

Inadvertent Rapture includes artists working in painting, photography and installation, whose work delves into secular-religious wanderings and physical and emotional decay. All of the work, in one way or another, attempts to take us out of our latest and current end-of-days challenge(s), but not without some dose of reality thrown in, and perhaps a bit of humor to boot.