Dawn/Eclipse of A New Era by Harry Gamboa Jr.
June 4 – August 5, 2024
Reception: June 20, 7-10pm
The MAIN, 24266 Main Street, Santa Clarita, CA 91321
Harry Gamboa Jr. directed/photographed numerous performers as they incorporated their individual/collective bodies to form ephemeral actions on-site in Newhall to create digitized/print photographic imagery. The surreal meets the existential as portraiture becomes performative. Human presence on urban terrain is illusory as actuality confronts virtuality. The mirage of the masses is evasive but reverbates as myth via images persist in memory. The effect of “noir” is essential to Southern California but gray zones emerge in the Dawn/Eclipse of A New Era.
Performers: Yasaman Alipour, Jasmine Alvarez, Madelaine Auble, Fía Benitez, Ivan Brizuela, Christian Chavez, Wesley Chen, Duke Choi, Oscar Corona, Joseemar Correas, Adriana Dinapoli, Steven Fang, Stella Felice, Sage Fogel, Juan Herrera, Oltree Hui, Zoe Liu, Zoe J. Moon, Norma Nava, Jenny Nirgens, Benjamin Quiñones, Steven Reyes, Mir Rosales, Ruth Villalobos Saucedo, Elias Magallanes Talamas, Jake Thornton, Jazmin Urrea, Emiko Wilks, Shu Zhang
Harry Gamboa Jr. conceived/directed/photographed, DAWN/ECLIPSE OF A NEW ERA, an Ephemeral Action/Portraiture series.
Harry Gamboa Jr. (Los Angeles, 1951 – )
Co-founder of Asco (1972-1985), Los Angeles-based performance group.
Founder/Director of the international performance troupe, Virtual Vérité (2005-2017).
Faculty, Photo/Media Program, California Institute of the Arts.
His work has been exhibited/collected internationally: AltaMed Art Collection (2022); J.Paul Getty Museum (2021); Museum of Contemporary Art (2020); Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany (2020); Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery (2019); Autry Museum of the American West (2018); Whitney Museum of American Art (2016, 1995 Biennial); Smithsonian American Art Museum (2014); Tate Liverpool (2013); Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City (2011); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2011); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2006).
His work has been featured: Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Apollo, Spike, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Frieze, Aperture, USA Today, Variety, Le Monde, Artforum, Art in America, Flash Art, DW, Terremoto, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Art Monthly and El País.
He is the author of Xoloitzcuintli Doppelgänger, essays in Pfeil No. 10 & 12 (Hamburg), Exploring Commonism A New Aesthetics of the Real (Antwerp); Urban Exile: Collected Writings of Harry Gamboa Jr. (University of Minnesota Press).
To schedule a private viewing of the artwork, please contact Jeff Barber JBARBER@santa-clarita.com.
Image Credit:
Portrait from DAWN/ECLIPSE OF A NEW ERA
©2024, Harry Gamboa Jr.
20 inches x 38 inches
B&W Photocopy on Bond
