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(production drawing by Nate Lowman, 2011)

TRIPLE A

Taken together, the Renaissance frescoes at the Met, the May ’68 graffiti slogans, and Warhol’s Cow Wallpaper were clues to an alternative direction away from the self-contained object. This is not to suggest that these three events alone constituted the sole impetus for the turn to the wall. But they began to suggest a new site, a new scale, a new sense of time – in short, the possibility of a new kind of experience. Wall-works bypass double support.

-Mel Bochner, “Why Would Anyone Want to Draw on the Wall?”, October, Fall, 2009

Triple A is a two-year public art project initiated by Francois Ghebaly, Emma Gray, and the Mandrake Bar. Eight internationally recognized artists will be asked to create a single color image to be painted at large scale on the exterior wall of a former muffler shop that sits at the corner of Venice Boulevard and La Cienega Boulevard, just south of the 10 Freeway in Los Angeles California. The wall, situated in the Culver City gallery district, home to many of Los Angeles’s most important art galleries, also sits at one of the most heavily trafficked intersections in Los Angeles. This location offers high visibility to both arts professionals and the larger general public.

The eight images painted on the wall over the course of the project will also be used to create a suite of eight individual silkscreen prints in an edition of ten. The inaugural project, a wall painting by New York based artist Nate Lowman, will open in fall 2011.

The mural is located at 2600 South La Cienega Blvd. The silkscreen prints will be available at the reception to celebrate the completion of the first wall painting at Mandrake Bar, October 1, 2011 from 4 to 6 pm.

For information, please email mail@mandrakebar.com

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