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SUMMARY:Acacia Marable: trash flag
DESCRIPTION:Found matter elicited a certain detachment from the object itself. It could be sold for asong\, traded\, or given away but also could be returned to the streets\, to the land\, or to thejunk pile. Sometimes it was left to ripen\, and sometimes it was just left.—Kellie Jones\, South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s (2017) \n\n\n\nOver the course of several months\, Acacia Marable gathered discarded objects and slowlytransformed them through assemblage\, reconfiguration\, and sculptural improvisation. Thisprocess was at once devotional and absurdist: he cleaned\, sealed\, and\, in oil\, painted each itemred\, white\, and blue—the palette of nationalism\, shared identity\, and soft power. Ranging frombanana peels to a grand piano\, the trash-objects were primarily gleaned from the streets betweenMarable’s house and studio or generated by the artist himself. Across these sculptural paintings\,the American flag repeats: at times it is reproduced in full\, at others it is fragmented\, skewed\, orreduced to its basic compositional elements\, rendered abstract. \n\n\n\ntrash flag builds on the Afro-Atlantic legacy of Yard Shows\, intricate installations of scavengeditems created by Black Southerners primarily in the wake of the Civil Rights movement.Through these exhibitions\, objects deemed valueless or otherwise obsolescent were transfiguredinto expansive assemblages with spiritual\, subversive\, and testimonial significance. Through therepetitive\, ritualistic acts of remaking and undoing the flag across the refuse of daily life\,Marable creates space for objects to belong in ways they were not intended to. Rupture isvisible—or possible—only in relation to pattern\, to a recursive act. Here\, broken\, cast-off\,jettisoned\, discarded matter is reclaimed in the form of a vast\, all-over painting\, its multifacetedsurface at turns coalescing and dissolving its primary loaded symbol. \n\n\n\nOpening Reception\, December 5  \n\n\n\n· 6–9 PM \n\n\n\nArtist Walkthrough & Cookout\, December 14• Walkthrough begins at 1 PM• Cookout from 2 PM until closing \n\n\n\nGallery HoursWednesday–Sunday · 12–6 PM
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/acacia-marable-trash-flag/
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