1 TB Verbatim: Los Angeles Timing 2013-2025, Genes Dispensary at Leroy’s
New Uses of Common Objects, mixed media, 2019
Gene’s Presents “1TB Verbatim: Los Angeles Timing 2013-2025”, curated by Keith J. Varadi
Leroy’s
422 Ord Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
January 18th to March 15th, 2025
A poet walks into a bar. That’s not the start of a joke. That’s the start of this exhibition. Well, not quite…
The start of this exhibition was back in 2013 when I moved to Los Angeles. Ian James was the first friend I made when I got here. We’re both Aries boys from neighboring Midwest states who have radical leftist politics, love bucolic landscapes and grimy towns equally, and tend to stay up way too late and fiercely debate. He immediately made me feel as though leaving New York City and driving 3,000 miles west was absolutely the right decision. And when he opened up a new gallery below the now-closed gallery Metro PCS, and eventually asked me to curate a show in this new space, I was determined to try to best honor our friendship, my experiences in this gorgeous and complex city, and many of the artists who have had profound impacts on me over the past near-dozen years. It is my hope that after you make your way through the labyrinth that is known as Leroy’s, you are able to gain some insight into what matters to me and what I think matters and has mattered in Los Angeles.
Thank you, Ian. Thank you to everyone else involved with this exhibition. And thank you, Los Angeles.
-Keith J. Varadi, January 2025
Featuring: Sydney Acosta Gal Amiram Andy Bennett Jesse Benson Scott Benzel Tanya Brodsky Erin Calla Watson Hiroshi Clark Carrie Cook Darya Diamond Boz Deseo Garden Benjamin Echeverria Patricia Fernandez & Mitch Springer Beatrix Fowler Aaron Garber-Maikovska Lukas Geronimas Andy Giannakakis Aimee Goguen Andrew J. Greene Juliana Halpert Merideth Hillbrand David Horvitz Hanna Hur Patrick Jackson lan James Jeremy Jansen Steve Kado Michael Kennedy Costa Janice Lee Sophia Le Fraga Anne Libby Olivia Mole David Muenzer Chadwick Rantanen Benjamin Reiss Michael Rey Ry Rocklen Jools Rothblatt Josh Schaedel Ellen Schafer Asha Schechter Naoki Shutter-Shudo Matt Siegle Paul Sietsema Joshua Smith Dean Spunt LeRoy Stevens Andrew Norman Wilson Michael Zahn Barak Zemer