DOCUMENT JOURNAL
Katie Rex explores LA Art Week’s city-wide impact
Brooklyn’s underground monarch, Gage Spex, landed at Spring/Break Art Show to curate some of multimedia artist Kendalle Getty’s most seminal work in an exhibition titled The Hostile Home. Placed in the center aisle of Spring/Break’s Culver City show space, Spex’s booth was the standout of the independent fair. The eight works by Getty included etched mirrors (Reflections on Mortality, Reflections on Aging), an ornate homegrown crystal chair (The Golden Child), and a mid-century modern media unit with a film (Untitled), all exploring the unsettling hidden truths of the home where the artist grew up. Untitled portrays Getty’s atypical relationship with media, having been raised without television. Their histrionic interpretation of sitcoms and advertising was told through character acting in a montage of fast paced and melodramatic clips, with a comedic hard edge that exhibits existential hysteria.
Photo by Esteban Schimpf
