PARTY’S OVER
Exhibiting Artists:
Marie-Lou Desmeules, Julia Dzwonkoski, Raul Gonzalez III, Erik Hanson, George Horner, Daniel Arthur Mendoza and Ralph Steadman
Exhibition Dates:
January 7 - February 18, 2022
Opening Reception:
Friday, January 7, 2022, 5:00-9:00pm
Artist Talks:
Julia Dzwonkoski: Saturday, February 5 @ 11:00am
Erik Hanson, Saturday, February 12 @ 11:00am
Rivalry Projects is pleased to present Party’s Over, an exhibition of seven contemporary artists whose practices inhabit the gauzy space between reality and hyperbole. Featuring work by Marie-Lou Desmeules, Julia Dzwonkoski, Raul Gonzalez III, Erik Hanson, George Horner, Daniel Arthur Mendoza and Ralph Steadman, Party’s Over is on view at Rivalry Projects from January 7-February 18, 2022.
Party’s Over takes the lead from our moment of profound change; fraught with political gridlock, stasis in the face of climate change, institutionalized racism, state-sanctioned violence, and conspiracies, a hopeful future feels further away than ever. Party’s Over offers a cacophony of intimately scaled works spanning sculpture, works on paper, illustration, photography, and video. This dissonance mirrors our siloed and individualistic participation within culture, where there are as many versions of truth as there are voices.
WORKS
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Marie-Lou Desmeules is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the construction of identity by creating impactful representations of modern personalities and pop figures. She was awarded a fellowship residency at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, in Colorado, in 2017. Her work has been exhibited across Europe and North America since 2005, and she has also participated in the Spanish television series "Maricón Perdido". Her latest film took runner-up at the Interfilm Festival in Berlin, Germany.
Julia Dzwonkoski is a painter based in Buffalo, NY. She studied art at SUNY Buffalo and UC San Diego. Living in Los Angeles for many years, she collaborated with Kye Potter on paintings, books, ceramics and the record label, Orion Read. Her recent paintings explore the highs and lows of modern life though the lens of ghosts, stars and inventions for the end-times.
Raúl Gonzalez III (b. El Paso, Texas), also known as Raúl The Third, three time Pura Belpre award-winning illustrator, author, and artist living in Boston, MA. Vamos! Let’s Cross the Bridge was awarded one of the year’s Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2021 from the New York Times and the New York Public Library. He is currently adapting his World of Vamos! books into an animated television series with Silvergate Media and Mercury Filmworks. His work centers around the contemporary Mexican-American experience and his memories of growing up in El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Erik Hanson (b. Toyko, Japan) is a New York-based artist working in painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and needlepoint. Since 1978, Hanson has been teaching himself new mediums in an effort to make ethereal phenomena lay flat and still within the four corners of a visual field. His work is often a result of ongoing attempts to capture fleeting sensations appended to his own synthesia. Hanson’s work has been shown at MoMA/PS1, Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, the New Museum, Sculpture Center, Participant, and Marlborough Contemporary.
George Horner (b. Dallas, Texas) lives and works in Park Slope, Brooklyn. He grew up in San Antonio, and attended the University of Texas, followed by the University of Chicago, where he earned his MFA in 1981.
Horner worked at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago before moving to New York in 1984, where he became a staff member at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery for the next 32 years. His work has been exhibited at Feature, Nancy Lurie, Randolph Street Gallery, N.A.M.E., Mo David Gallery, American Fine Art, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, Judith Charles Gallery, Mark Pasek Gallery, Canada, Arena, Ingrid Dinter Gallery, Spring/Break Art Fair and Luring Augustine.
Daniel Arthur Mendoza makes cut and sewn works from secondhand fabrics and drawings that explore themes of repression, vulnerability and queerness. Mendoza's work reveals a longing to rediscover the past, get lost, free oneself from normative storytelling, and open oneself to potential futures.
He currently splits his time between Riverside, California where he is pursuing his MFA at UC Riverside, and San Francisco, California. Mendoza received his BA in Studio Art at UC Davis and attended the Chautauqua Institution Schools of the Fine and Performing Arts in Chautauqua, New York in 2013. He is the recipient of the MFA Graduate Fellowship at UC Riverside (2021), Gadberry Award for Sculpture (2013), the Kubota Scholarship (2013), and was nominated for the Tosa Award (2018).