Daniel Hug is pleased to present Brian Kennon’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. Brian Kennon received his MFA from Art Center College of Art and Design in Pasadena in 2005. Kennon appropriates other artists works, re-contextualizing these works by bringing them into his body of collected images, often redirecting the original intent/ meaning of the works.
For his exhibition at Daniel Hug, Kennon produced a series of works that continues Richard Hawkins’ Disembodied Zombie series from 1997, accompanied with a pair of images appropriated from the gatefold LP’s of Rainbow’s Long Live Rock ‘N’ Roll and Joe Walsh’s But Seriously Folks. These two disparate bodies of work are brought together through Kennon’s interests in the traditions of gore and violence experienced through Rock ‘n” Roll and Heavy Metal.
Kennon’s artistic practice includes publishing related ephemera such as books and posters. For the exhibition at Daniel Hug a new book entitled Forest, a three volume catalog that groups Hawkins Disembodied Zombies with a series of drawings by Agnes Martin from 1990 and forest images culled from the internet will be presented. Also, a poster of collected album covers that feature, in one way or another, disembodied heads will be part of the exhibition.
Brian Kennon first exhibited his series of appropriated Richard Hawkins works at the Liste Fair in Basel Switzerland in the booth of Daniel Hug in June of 2007. Recent group exhibitions include Wu Tang/Googolplex at GBE Passerby , NYC and Trudi: No Jerks at Rental Gallery, NYC. 2nd Cannons Publications will publish his new book, Forest, by the end of 2007.
