Next Show: Lust 4 Lace - Thursday, February 14
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions celebrates the grand tradition of VALENTINE's day from years past with, good friends, random lovers, and strangers.
Featuring brand new and rarely seen videos and performances from Southern California artists including: Buck Angel, Skip Arnold, Jordan Biren, Squeaky Blonde, David Burns, Peter Caine, Franco Castilla, Mark B. Chamness, Charong Chow, Jennifer Cohen, Geoff Cordner, Michael Dee, Dino Dinco, Willia Drew, Zachary Drucker, Martin Durazo, Micol Hebron, Tyler Hubby, Bryan Jackson, Kadet Kuhne, Darin Klein, Lauren Lavitt, Matt Lipps, Selene Luna, Ming-Yuen S. Ma, Eon McKai, Julie Orser, Julianna (JP) Parr, Kathryne Layne Paxton, Barry Pett, Eva Posey, Dustin Robertson, Margie Schnibbe, Mark Cosmo Segurson, Thairin Smothers, Vena Virago, Austin Young, Carlos Zamora, and more.
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibits
LOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS
Thursday, February 14, 2008
doors open at 8pm
6522 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90028
Group show 5 - 15 November 2007 Galeria Alonso Vidal, Barcelona, Spain
Group show at Art For Humans gallery. Reception Sat. July 21 6 - 10pm 2007
Past Festival Screenings:
Austin Film Festival, Austin Texas
Bend Film Festival, Bend Oregon
Sidewalk Film Festival, Birmingham, Alabama (Sept 2006)
SF Docfest (May 2006)
Supershort Film Festival (London, UK, July 2006)
Lucid Underground Media Arts/Kansas City Film Festival (September 2005).
"Celebrated Photographer Geoff Cordner has created a testament to a slice of life that is both brutal and beautiful. Through a series of short films, sexy, world-weary punk voices narrate autobiographical stories of growing up as an outsider in the 1960s & 80s, hotel hopping, and surviving on the streets. Using a moving collage of black and white photography, Hotel Hopscotch lays down the laws and personalities of desperate street cultures. The junky hotels, the HIV hotels, and the mentally ill hotels are compared and contrasted with a lovingly naked eye. Survival stories of punk street kids in love are told. Tribal heroes in mohawks living off cigarettes and beer protect their own and their fleeting urban families. With self effacing honesty and raw humor, moments in youth are remembered and captured as many in the tribes die young or disappear. This is a meditation on a specific slice of punk life captured with love and honesty."
Geoffrey Cordner is a thrift-shop visionary whose photographs capture the underbelly of millennial America with a heart and ruthlessness that places him beyond trend and fashion, in a status all his own...a photographer who has abandoned the trappings of conventional success to bring us a world of savage, mind-blowing and relentless images the rest of us might never see." -- JERRY STAHL, author of Permanent Midnight & Perv: a Love Story
"Cordner captures that space between breaths, where photography transcends documentation and morphs into the pure essence of being. A small moment in time where the subjects drop their natural defenses and instead of posing for the shot, seem to exist forever, not trapped by their image, but for once, finally freed within it in." -- LYDIA LUNCH
"The constitution of photographer Geoff Cordner is part cut-throat visionary, part punk rock prankster. His subversive exploits are an assault on the senses." -- CLINT CATALYST, author of Cottonmouth Kisses
"...some of the most incredible and visionary work seen during our tenure. Controversial, seeking, raw and indelibly modern, Cordner shoots from the hip and leaves the viewer with an elevated pulse, and a thick taste on the tongue of the morning after... Hard-hitting... drenched with black humor and asking big questions." --HEATHER CORRINA, Scarlet Letters
"The new Weegee" -- LEGS McNEIL, author of Please Kill Me, an Oral History of Punk Rock
"Sweaty and on the way to the bathroom to screw after a speedball...you can smell the cigarettes and cheap booze...timeless and aching in a way rarely seen in modern photography." -- JANE'S GUIDE
"Geoff Cordner rape the terror fear=cytoplasm pituitary of a digital
chimpanzee cheerfully" -- KENJI SIRATORI, author of Blood Electric
"A reprehensible, socially parasitic artist" -- MS MAGAZINE
my website: www.geoffcordner.net
