$27 general / $22.95 members
from Against the Grain, LACE (2008)

About Against the Grain
Against the Grain featured works by arists Tom Allen, Brian Bress, Robert Fontenot, Wendell Gladstone, Matt Greene, Julian Hoeber, Brian Kennon, John Knuth, Amy Sarkisian, Ryan Taber, Ami Tallman, Kelly Sears, Anna Sew Hoy and Cheyenne Weaver. Curator Christopher Russell looks back on a seminal exhibition from LACE's history, Against Nature: A Group Show of Work by Homosexual Men (1988), curated by Dennis Cooper and Richard Hawkins.

Russell looks at the influence of the original show and asks after the influence of radicality among a new generation of artists. Using Against Nature as a point of departure, Russell has selected 14 local artists that seek a similar critical position in our social climate today and undertake themes of decadence within a present day context.

Published with support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Pasadena Arts Alliance.

Against the Grain: general $27 Against the Grain: member $22.95