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DCKT Contemporary is pleased to present Exene Cervenka's first New York exhibition. On view in America the Beautiful will be journals and mixed media collages dating from 1974 through 2005 by one of the founding members of the seminal Los Angeles punk group, X. The exhibition was originally organized by the Santa Monica Museum of Art and guest curators Kristine McKenna and Michael Duncan.
From September 17 to November 26, 2005, the Project Room of the Santa Monica Museum of Art presents Exene Cervenka: America the Beautiful, the first comprehensive museum exhibition of journals and mixed media collages dating from 1974 through 2005 by one of the founding members of the seminal Los Angeles punk group, X. The exhibition is guest curated by Michael Duncan and Kristine McKenna.
America the Beautiful will feature nine journals from the collection of approximately 100 that Cervenka has completed over the past thirty-one years, as well as a series of twenty collages. Cervenka’s journals combine rough drafts of songs and personal reflections rendered in a baroque calligraphic script, with photographs, drawings, and scraps of ephemera that she found while traveling as a musician. Similarly, the collages are created from found materials to form an interpretative composite portrait of the country she’s come to know through her life experiences on the road.
An icon of Los Angeles’s seventies punk scene, Exene Cervenka is known internationally for her work with the critically acclaimed band, X. Today she continues her musical career in solo performances and participation in such bands as The Knitters, Auntie Christ, and The Original Sinners. A visual and spoken word artist for more than thirty years, Cervenka has also published four volumes of poetry.
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