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"Deep End" In Chinatown

by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer
Jen DeNike, Carlton DeWoody, Alexa Gerrity, Elizabeth Huey, Susan Lipper, Eric Payson, Ali Prosch, Lucy Stein at Anat Ebgi August 15th, 2009 - October 4th, 2009
Posted 8/23/09

Even though many (if not most) of the eight artists in this swimming pool-themed summer group show are neither from nor based in Southern California, “Deep End” intriguingly taps into regional tropes of sunshine and noir in addition to seasonal tanlines. As curator Anat Ebgi reminds us in her exhibition text, the swimming pool is a fraught cultural symbol of both leisure and lust, childhood and drowning, suburban daydreams of the good life and shady visions tainted with danger. The p... [more]