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Eve Fowler (born 1965) has presented a high-energy and literary exhibition at the newly opened Mier Gallery in West Hollywood. Tiring recent trends in contemporary art have included highly commercial and decorative abstract canvases on one hand and anti-intellectual irony on the other. Fowler brings a breath of fresh air using an old familiar friend that we have not seen much of in recent years: text. In the case of her Mier exhibition, she uses cuttings appropriated from the great Gertrude Stein. By reclaiming these century old texts, she has created a highly-sexualized, queer, and designerly exhibition that is amplified by both rigor and humor.
Sculpture, painting, and wall text are combined in the exhibition to create a menagerie of objects and images. Every vantage point in the gallery gives you snippets of Stein, cut up in such a way that they become peculiar slogans. Visually treated with a nod to advertising, yet so erudite in nature, one walks away feeling as if she has just entered into a transformative event. Fowler stirs the pot of literary and visual resources to extract something that is humorous, sexual, and idiosyncratic. In a world of derivative and decorative art, her exhibition comes across as an inventive and refreshing eruption of verve and intensity.
Eve Fowler, the difference is spreading, runs May 22–July 3, 2015 at Mier Gallery (1107 Greenacre Ave., West Hollywood, CA 90046)