Our Favorite Things

August 1 - September 28, 2013

  • Horsehoes Horseshoes, 1998 48" x 14"

  • The Volcano Society: The Volcano Painting/digital found images, collaged on canvas, 2010 36" x 36"

  • The Volcano Society: The Discussion Painting/digital found images, collaged on canvas, 2010 36" x 36"

  • The Volcano Society: Nothing More Painting/digital found images, collaged on canvas, 2010 36" x 36"

  • The Volcano Society: Ideas and Prophecies Painting/digital found images, collaged on canvas, 2010 36" x 36"

  • Influential You Mixed Media, 2001 20" x 22" x 2"

  • Jack Pastrami Mixed Media, 2005 11" x 20" x 6"

  • Jeep, Mixed Media, 2011 6.5" x 9" x 3"

  • Kind Of Grumpy Mixed Media, 2004 27" x 18" x 5"

  • Lying On The Grass Mixed Media, 2005 24" x 19" x 6"

  • Madonna and Child Mixed Media, 2008 26 x 34" x 3"

  • Nineteen Fifty Three Mixed Media, 2011 7" x 10" x 3"

  • Omnipotent Struggle Mixed Media 20 x 30

  • Perfect Little Cookies Mixed Media 2000 23" x 20" x 3"

  • Praying Hands Mixed Media, 2010 11 x 13.5" x 3.5"

  • Principles of Punch Card Data Processing 24" x 18"

  • RIchard Nixon Died Today Mixed Media, 2001 24" x 24"

  • Safety Handles Mixed Media, 2012 20.5" x 27.5" x 3"

  • Strange Lives of One Man Mixed Media, 2010 31 x 35.5" x 4"

  • Two Light Bulbs Flickering Mixed Media, 2001 24" x 20" x 4"

  • Grandpa's Minor Movement Mixed Media, 2010 24.5 x 28" x 4"

  • Golf Golf Golf Mixed Media, 2012 10" x 12" x 4.5"

  • Fun For Boys Mixed Media, 2011 13" x 16" x 3"

  • Extra Sharp Pencils Mixed Media, 2000's 19" x 14" x 2"

  • Dee Deed and Deed Mixed Media, 2012 6.5" x 8.5" x 3"

  • Caprice Mixed Media, 2010 7.5" x 6"

  • By Truck Mixed Media, 2004 30" x 26" x 4"

  • Beyond Petroleum Mixed Media, 2010 22" x 54" x 17"

  • Basketball Plant Mixed Media 19 x 29

  • Landscape 6 Mixed Media, 2011 68" x 70"

  • Landscape 4 Mixed Media, 2010 48" x 50"

  • Landscape 2 15" x 44" Mixed Media, 2007

  • Landscape 1 12" x 48" Mixed Media, 2006

  • Landscape 3 Mixed Media, 2008 37" x 50"

  • Landscape 5 Mixed Media, 2010 66" x 69"

Our Favorite Things is Negativland's first retrospective exhibit in Richmond, VA, and is a comprehensive survey of both current and older visual art work that has been shown in Los Angeles, New York, Minneapolis, Seattle, London, Houston, and Art Basel. The members of Negativland live and work in California, Washington, North Carolina, and Massachusetts , they are : Mark Hosler, Don Joyce,David Wills,Richard Lyons,Chris Grigg and The Jet Black Hair People.   Since 1980 they have been creating collaged works in fine art, music, CDs, video, radio, and live performance using appropriated sounds, objects, images, and text.   Negativland has been sued twice for copyright infringement which they fought successfully. Now their work is referenced and taught in many college courses in the US and been written about in over 150 books (including "No Logo" by Naomi Klein). Since the lawsuits, Negativland has been aggressively and publicly involved in advocating significant reforms of U.S. copyright laws and members have recently visited  Capitol Hill to engage with various Senators and Congressmen.   A provocation and a punk-inspired commentary on our mercenary culture…eloquent and impassioned spokesmen for ideas like a “creative commons”…it’s salutary to see these smart and influential guys get a gallery show. - ART IN AMERICA   Declared heroic by their peers for refashioning culture into what the group considers to be more honest statements, Negativland suggests that refusing to be original, in the traditional sense, is the only way to make art that has any depth within commodity capitalism... - NEW YORK TIMES   Negativland isn't just some group of merry pranksters; its art is about tearing apart and reassembling found images, objects, and sounds to create new ones, in an attempt to make social, political and artistic statements.  Hilarious and chilling. - THE ONION