Opening Thursday 11 October, 6-8p
1401 16th Street, San Francisco CA 94103

Rebeca Bollinger
Ajit Chauhan
Catherine Fairbanks & Dylan Crossman
Nicki Green
Léonie Guyer
Claudia La Rocco: I am trying to do the assignment [ limited edition chapbook

Maggie Preston
Billy White
David Zuttermeister

Curated by Margaret Tedesco

[ Freeways ]

“Make you feel they had some reason in mind when they built them—I mean, it makes you feel you might understand.” —Maria (Tuesday Weld), Play It As It Lays, 1972

Cracks.

It begins in what we remember. Subtraction. Names of streets. Venice. Los Feliz. Hollywood Blvd. Lincoln Blvd. Cahuenga and Lankershim. Santa Monica Blvd. Glendale. Whittier. Sepulveda. The 405, the 10, the 605, Pico. Paci c Coast Hwy. Sunset & Vine. Normandie. Topanga Canyon. Marina del Rey. Compton. Beverly. Imperial & Crenshaw. Gower. Centinela. So. Central. Western Ave. Laurel Canyon. Wilshire. Slauson. Inglewood Ave. Names of streets. Say them. Fairfax. Let them roll off your tongue. La Cienega. Equalizers. How to talk about landscape. Ground cover. Desert. Clay. Freeways. Freeways. Ice plant. Sun. The coast. Ethos. The Texas Hop. Minimal line. Tent revivals. Norton Simon Museum. Golden State. Vincent Thomas Bridge. Barstow. Strip malls. Horizon. Jacaranda trees. Shipwreck. Lawns. Orange Skies. The Source. Fields. Lake Shrine Temple. Port of Los Angeles. The Woman’s Building. The Valley. Paris, Texas. Grif th Park Observatory. Paramount lots. Red Rubber Ring Floating in a Swimming Pool. Bunker Hill. Paci c Ocean Park. Freeways. Ask the Dust, John Fante, John Fahey, John Baldessari. Octavia Butler, Curtis Harrington. Aimee Semple McPherson, David Hockney, Sister Corita Kent, Robert Irwin, Judy Baca, Joan Didion. Joan Didion. Kenneth Anger. And Vito’s Dancers.

Baby, baby don’t cry, baby, baby don’t cry,
Baby, baby here’s why,
Because love is here standing by,
Love is right here standing by. —Smokey Robinson and The Miracles

Seasons slip by. Los Angeles does stand still sometimes.