FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Justin Cole | Suite Sixteen and Tocqueville Photograms
14 April – 19 May 2012
Pepin Moore | 933 Chung King Road | Los Angeles | California | 90012
Opening reception: Saturday, 14 April 2012, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Gallery hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 12:00 – 6:00 pm
Pepin Moore is proud to present an exhibition of two bodies of photographic works, Suite Sixteen and Tocqueville Photograms, by Justin Cole on view from April 14th through May 19th 2012. A reception for the artist will be held Saturday, April 14th from six to eight in the evening.
Comprised of six works, Tocqueville Photograms depict photocopied pages from Alexis de Tocqueville’s seminal study of American society and culture, De la démocratie en Amérique (1835/1840). Cole uses the photocopied pages of the text with another reader’s notes to create a photogram, directly transposing the marked pages onto photographic paper. As with his previous works that examine American culture, Cole reframes the context of the original text along with the reader’s notes, reconsidering the text as image.
In the South gallery, Cole presents Suite Sixteen, 16 photographs of still scenes around an affluent all-girls school in Lenox, Massachusetts. The images vary from abandoned architecture and incidental topography to the objects and remnants of unknown activity. Cole has printed the images small on a larger field of photographic paper, repositioning the image as a metaphorical window while simultaneously accentuating the printed photograph as its material support.
Justin Cole (b. 1982, Detroit, MI) is an artist living and working in Los Angeles. He holds a BA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles and is a founding member of the art and performance collective OJO. Cole’s work has been exhibited at Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles; Co-Lab, Copenhagen; Lizabeth Olivera Gallery, Los Angeles; LA><ART, Los Angeles; Queens Nails, San Francisco; and Centre Pour l’Art et le Culture, Aix-en-Provence, among others. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.
For more information please contact the gallery at +1 213 626 0501 or gallery@pepinmoore.com
