Don Fritz “Atomic Icons”
also showing wtih Doug Fogelson, So Youn Lee, Justine Lin, Mayuko Nakamura, and Naoshi
June 5 – 28, 2015
Artist reception: Friday, June 5th; 8-11PM
La Luz de Jesus Gallery
4633 Hollywood Boulevard,
Los Angeles, CA 90027
www.laluzdejesus.com
to view the entire show click here
Children’s toys and books become objects of ritual when they are imbued with conscious and unconscious meaning based in cultural constructs of gender and power. Heavy and fragile are the underlying presence and psychological consequence of the menacing cultural narratives intrinsic in everyday objects; banality is easily transcended by over-sizing, but power is also trivialized. Guns, jet planes, and rocket cars hide violence beneath their glazed surfaces.
Fantasies of power are closely linked to gender identities, which are formed in adolescence. The toys that seem to reflect the innocence and freedom of childhood are embedded with weighty social contracts dictating gender roles. Here the objects are incorporated with the menacing presence of the atomic symbol as an investigation within American pop culture to show the disparity between our idealized dreams and our physical realities.
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- Book 3
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- Bowling Pin
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- Jet Plane
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- Rocket Car 65
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- Atomic Iron
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- Atomic Tank
Don Fritz‘s works have been collected by the likes of
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Microsoft Corporation, Seattle, Washington
Otaru Museum, Hokaido, Japan
Ceech Marin, San Francisco, California
Jim Carrey, Actor, los Angeles, California
Nicolas Cage, Actor, Los Angeles, California
Miklos Forman, Director, Los Angeles, California
Billy Shire, La Luz De Jesus, Hollywood California
Mark Ryden, Pasadena California
