SCOTT BENZEL

Inversion I after Dennis Wilson

Inversion I after Dennis Wilson, 2010, in “Endless Bummer/Surf Elsewhere” at Blum and Poe. String quartet, record lacquer, modified (reversible) Technics 1200 turntable, Dynaco preamp, speakers. Audio Excerpt

Music from the Trip (1967)

Music from the Trip (1967) in the style of a Schoenberg-Gershwin tennis match observed in passing by Dr. Oscar Janiger and other works. Sat July 24th at King’s Road Park Pavilion

Program PDF

LA Weekly

Endless Bummer/Surf Elsewhere

Endless Bummer / Surf Elsewhere at Blum and Poe July 3 – August 28, 2010

Billy Al Bengston, Justin Beal, Scott Benzel, Gil Blank, Jennifer Bornstein, Carol Bove, Cameron, Anne Collier, R. Crumb, Lucy Dodd, Sam Durant, Roe Ethridge, Amy Granat, Ed Kienholz, Margaret Kilgallen, Nate Lowman, John McCracken, Adam McEwen, Dave Muller, Aleksandra Mir, Catherine Opie, Raymond Pettibon, Richard Phillips, Amanda Ross-Ho, Sterling Ruby, Ed Ruscha, Reena Spaulings, Vincent Szarek, Guyton \ Walker and Christopher Williams With a video program by Drew Heitzler and a ‘zine with text by Jan Tumlir

Animal Style

Animal Style: The New Warrior – Pepin Moore, Los Angeles

July 9th through August 14th 2010

Black Suns/Black Holes (Colby Posters) 2010, Engraving on letterpress posters, 14×17″

Inversion II after Steven Spielberg, 2010, duratrans in lightbox 24×36″

http://mankindproject.org/

Go check out the link above to learn more about the Mankind Project and their New Warrior Training weekends. My shrink was really pushing me to do this, so after researching it a bit, I found a new shrink. Shortly there after, my friends Genevieve and John Ryan told me they were opening a new gallery in Chinatown. They asked me if I would curate a summer show for them to operate as a forward to their official opening in September. Since I have a stoner attention span (and appetite), I immediately thought of the New Warrior Training and then In and Out burgers.

I’m guessing you know that besides their regular menu, In and Out has all these options that are off menu. Animal Style is extra everything. It got its name in the early sixties when In and Out first became popular with surfers. They would order their burgers this way. The clean-cut employees (In and Out still has weird born-again affiliations) referred to the shaggy surfer boys as animals, thus Animal Style. Coincidentally, early versions of the new warrior training sessions were called Wild Animal Weekends.

So there you go. Messy burgers and self-help retreats that lead to ideas of inclusive exclusion, cult behavior, new age family values, masochistic machismo rituals, spirit animal journeys, passive aggression, and enlightenment. I love California.

Artists in the exhibition include Justin Beal, Scott Benzel, Gil Blank, Jedediah Caesar, Matthew Chambers, Fritz Chesnut, Krysten Cunningham, Mark Hagen, Emilie Halpern, and Lucy Raven

For more information, please contact Pepin Moore at gallery@pepinmoore.com