Circus Gallery is proud to present “Battery,” Steven Bankhead’s Los Angeles debut solo show. For this show, Bankhead has made beautifully rendered black and white pencil drawings on paper. The drawings reference punk and other subcultures, sex, Americana and themes of myth, power, rebellion, and spectacle.

Steven Bankhead received his MFA from Otis in 2001. He was the recipient of the prestigious Lari Pittman award. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including shows at Toroler Kunstpavillon in Innsbruck, Austria, and at (S)language, MAK Center, Angles Gallery, and at AndrewShire Gallery in Los Angeles.

BENJAMIN LORD, LOCAL HORSES LOUNGE
Confederacy of Creative Ephemera
A project space inside Circus Gallery

The exhibition Local Horses Lounge is a study-room situated within the Confederacy of Creative Ephemera at Circus that interprets the themes of the book out into the room itself, defined as a total environment, combining the techniques of sculpture, printmaking, furniture, and performance. A framed cutaway view of the gallery wall reveals the “bricks,” made of paper proofs of Lord’s previous book.

Following his graduation from the MFA program at UCLA in 2002, Benjamin Lord was the recipient of a Residency Award, from the La Napoule Art Foundation, Mandelieu-La Napoule, France. His work has appeared in Los Angeles galleries including Hayworth Gallery and Apartment 2, Rivington Arms in New York and the Galeria dels Angels in Barcelona, Spain. Last September his work appeared in Western Lands at the Balmoral in Venice, CA.