Hey Absolute Arts!

Hope you're well! I wanted to pass along our latest press release for Chris Lux and Dane Johnson's new show "Eating Out Of The Drain", opening October 19th at The Popular Workshop in San Francisco. 

Chris's work is currently featured in the Berkeley Art Museum in Barry McGee's mid-career retrospective. He's also recently had a two man show at New Image Art in LA. Dane has recently completed a residency with TJ Wilcox at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. 

Any help getting the word out about the show or if you were interested in potentially doing a little piece on the show that would be great! Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any additional questions.

All of the relevant info has been included below. Thanks so much!

Nate Hooper
Creative Director





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Eating Out of the Drain

Chris Lux & Dane Johnson

October 19 - November 17, 2012
Opening Reception Friday October 19, 2012 6 - 10pm

The Popular Workshop
1173 Sutter Street // San Francisco // CA 94109
415.655.3765

The Popular Workshop is proud to present “Eating Out of the Drain,” an exhibition of new work from California based artists Chris Lux and Dane Johnson.

Presenting documentation and sequential examples of his own artistic process alongside three principal pieces of sculpture and painting, Lux expands upon his own previous work, and articulates a lineage of inspiration that leads from Ingmar Bergman, Depeche Mode, and Balthus, to Sir Hans Sloan,  Pope Pious VI, and Jacobus de Voragine.

Sourced from a collection of objects and contemporary images compiled within the confines of his apartment, Johnson’s work, shown in an array of mediums including painting, photography, print-making, sculpture, and collage, addresses the increasingly abundant and disparate elements of visual culture.  While rejecting cynicism and desensitization, in favor of protection, safety, and above all, pleasure, he defines the artist’s position as a catalyst for correlation and cohesion.

With the work of Lux and Johnson, “Eating Out of the Drain” makes an attempt at a visual language with which to navigate the palimpsest of our societal history, and address where we now find contemporary culture.