The sardonic paintings, videos, photographs, and sculptures of artist, filmmaker, and stage director Juan José Gurrola (1935-2007) are on view at House of Gaga/Reena Spaulings Fine Art, part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.
Included are works from his Dom Art series (Domestic Art), his “bad painting” versions of Philip Guston canvases, the poems and photographs of Gurrola’s Monoblock series, and three of his films: Robarte el arte (1972, documenting Gurrola’s supposed theft of a Documenta 5 artwork), Porn (circa 1989), and Cinturón gay latino (1984), which documents Gurrola, David Hockney and others painting murals on the walls of Mexico City gay bar El 9.
JUAN JOSÉ GURROLA—1966–1989, through November 18.
REENA SPAULINGS FINE ART, 2228 West 7th Street, 2nd floor (entrance on South Grand View Street), Los Angeles.
Juan José Gurrola, Familia Kool Aid, 1962/1966. Image credit: Gurrola Foundation and House of Gaga.
