Downtown, Los Angeles
Group Exhibition
Would You Rather...
BBQ LAKishio Suga Arlene Shechet Paul Pascal Theriault M.L. Dodge Damien Hoar de Galvan Samuel Scharf BBQLA presents Would You Rather… a group exhibition curated by Michael Smoler. The title of the exhibition playfully summons the rationales that one invokes when engaging in the act of decision-making. Would You Rather… magnetizes the subsequent and varied outcomes, creating a spatial sense of intimacy and offering a multitude of perspectives from which to observe the predominant medium of the exhibition—wood. The dismantling and re-methodizing present in the selected artworks are informed by each artist’s curious antidote to the ostensible natural order of things. By invoking the inherent processes and forms of minimalist sculpture, color field painting, mark-making, assemblage, and installation, Would You Rather… imbues a scrupulous presence, rarefying the experience of the collective, site-specific nature of the exhibition.