New works by Karl Erickson and Andrew Falkowski
September 8 – October 13, 2007
High Energy Constructs, Chinatown LA

Not your typical anti-authority, anti-war perspective, this exhibition is a considered response, reflecting arbitrary and insufficient answers to the untenable power struggles that envelope us all. The absurdity of our historical moment cries out for a reaction. But when has art ever produced an appropriate response to war? Guernica, a hallmark of cultural resistance, didn’t stop a civil war, it didn’t stop Franco and it didn’t stop fascism’s ascendancy in Spain and beyond. Leon Golub didn’t do a goddamn thing to change the torture in South America. Perhaps the complaint is misplaced….So what if art is limited? The Magnificent Bastards describe a mood: the angst and hapless bewilderment of an entire generation. Arrogant? Accurate? Okay! The Art of War is that expression: If you can’t stop’em, describe’em.