Corey Helford Gallery Presents DOSSHAUS (5/30 - 7/3)
POP GOES…
ON VIEW
May 30 – July 3, 2020
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On Saturday, May 30th, downtown Los Angeles’ Corey Helford Gallery will proudly unveil a new solo show from Los Angeles-based, award-winning collective DOSSHAUS, entitled POP GOES…, in Gallery 2.
Founded in 2011, DOSSHAUS is the current nom de guerre of David Connelly, whose work blends painting, sculpture, installation, photography, fashion, video, and performance; using recycled cardboard from the alleyways of Los Angeles, paper, and acrylic paint as their primary mediums, to create his own highly idealized universe.
Regarding POP GOES…, Connelly shares: “DOSSHAUS began has as an experiment in the continuum of Pop Art. I’ve always had a strong attachment to Pop. When I first engaged with the work of Warhol, Kruger, Johns, Haring and others, I was struck by how these artists could take seemingly superficial imagery and re-contextualize it in a way that made me think and feel so deeply. Pop gave the power back to the artist, wresting the determination of what qualifies as art away from collectors and curators who eventually came to follow the artists’ lead on the subject. Pop turned ideas into art. It demanded attention by asking questions like, ‘If art is everywhere, what is art?’ The answer, Pop suggested to me, was ‘You decide.’ As an artist, that opened a whole world to me.
Lately, I’ve found myself wanting to reengage with the aspects of Pop Art that drew me to the movement in the first place: Pop as the replication/re-contextualization of images, Pop as portraiture, Pop as protest, Pop as celebration. This is a show about ideas firing fast and direct from many angles. Yet every piece in the show will have at least one piece in direct conversation. The goal is to continue the discussion of what Pop Art is, what it was, and where it is going. As with all DOSSHAUS work, the medium is part of the message. Every piece in the show is made entirely of recycled cardboard with other reclaimed materials used as needed.
It's difficult to open an art show in May of 2020 without referencing the curious time in which we currently find ourselves. It’s unclear yet just how much the world will change as the result of COVID-19, but it is clear that we’ll have to adapt to move forward. And while all these pieces were devised and sculpted well ahead of the pandemic, many of them have an added resonance in its wake. The subtext of my artistic process, to this point, has been about people’s ability to create the world in which they want to live. The present times command we all do just that.”
POP GOES… marks DOSSHAUS’ first solo show since April, 2018 when Paper-Thin Hotel, an immersive, multi-room exhibit of cardboard sculptures centered around the theme of the American Dream, made its debut at Corey Helford. In LA Weekly’s cover feature (January 2018) promoting the show, they described DOSSHAUS as “…a ubiquitous, fast-rising art-star…on the national scene…”
POP GOES… opens Saturday, May 30th from 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm in Gallery 2, alongside a solo show from Camilla d’Errico, entitled The Color Wheel, in the Main Gallery and a three-artist show (debuting a new series of works from each) featuring Qualia by aica, Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing by Dena Seiferling, and Gravity by Luke Chueh in Gallery 3. Corey Helford Gallery is located at 571 S. Anderson St. Los Angeles, CA 90033 and normal hours are Tuesday – Saturday, from 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm.
About DOSSHAUS:
DOSSHAUS is an art collective founded in 2011 and the current nom de guerre of David Connelly. Created in response to a society saturated with social media-generated images in which reality itself seems all the more relative, DOSSAHAUS uses recycled cardboard, paper, and acrylic to create its own highly idealized universe. This cardboard world is at once separate from and a product of modern culture.
DOSSHAUS have taken part in more than twenty group art exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York and Miami; they staged their first solo exhibition at Gregorio Escalante Gallery in Los Angeles (February 2016); followed by their second major solo show in L.A. at Corey Helford Gallery (April 2018), entitled Paper-Thin Hotel, an immersive, multi-room exhibit of cardboard sculptures centered around the theme of the American Dream.
DOSSHAUS has frequently paid homage to the music that has influenced their art. In advance of the Paper-Thin Hotel exhibition, DOSSHAUS released a double 7” single (December 15, 2017) by the same name (“Paper-Thin Hotel”), in collaboration with Sympathy for the Record Industry. The limited-edition single release examines the role of visual art in music and has the distinction of being the first officially released record to be made entirely of cardboard.
DOSSHAUS received the award for Outdoor Sculpture at the 2018 Lucca Biennale in Lucca, Italy and have been featured in Juxtapoz, Hi-Fructose, ELLE, VICE, and on the cover of LA Weekly, as well as in Lori Zimmer's 2015 anthology, The Art of Cardboard (Rockport Publishers).
About Corey Helford Gallery:
Corey Helford Gallery (CHG) was first established in 2006 by Jan Corey Helford and her husband, television producer and creator, Bruce Helford (The Conners, Anger Management, The Drew Carey Show, George Lopez) and has since evolved into one of the premier galleries of New Contemporary art. Its goals as an institution are the support and growth of young and emerging, to well-known and internationally established artists. CHG represents a diverse collection of international artists, primarily influenced by today’s pop culture and collectively encompassing style genres such as New Figurative Art, Pop Surrealism, Neo Pop, Graffiti and Street Art. CHG is located in Downtown Los Angeles in a robust 12,000 square foot building presenting new exhibitions approximately every six weeks. For more info and an upcoming exhibition schedule, visit CoreyHelfordGallery.com and connect on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.
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