Circus Gallery, Bonelli Contemporary, and David Salow Gallery present

Delusionarium 4

1 exhibition of 24 artists spread throughout 3 Los Angeles galleries.  Delusionarium 4 is the 4^th installment of a series of nomadic group exhibitions organized by artist Jesse Benson.

Delusionarium 4: Zero Coupon

Steven Bankhead

Will Benedict

Molly Corey

Thor Evensen

Julian Hoeber

Nathan Hylden

Nicholas Kersulis

Aaron Garber Maikovska

Daniel Mendel-Black

Joshua Nathanson

D'Ette Nogle

Mark Roeder

Lucie Stahl

Jennifer West

December 13, 2008 to January 17, 2009

opening reception Saturday December 13, 2008 6-9pm

Circus Gallery

7065 Lexington Avenue

Los Angeles, CA 90038

contact: John Knuth, director

info@circus-gallery.com

323. 962. 8506

www.circus-gallery.com

Delusionarium 4: The Left Garden

Olga Balema

Erik Frydenborg

Marlene Haring

Shana Lutker

Aaron Garber Maikovska

Adam Miller

Ruby Neri

D'Ette Nogle

Lesley Vance

December 18, 2008 to January 17, 2009

opening reception Thursday December 18, 2008 6-9pm

performance by Aaron Garber Maikovska at 8pm

Bonelli Contemporary

943 N. Hill Street

Los Angeles, CA 90012

contact: Spencer Douglass, director

info@bonellicontemporary.com

213. 617. 8180

www.bonellicontemporary.com

Delusionarium 4: The Sun Sets on the Nothing New

Olga Balema

Jesse Benson

Shana Lutker

Bret Nicely

D'Ette Nogle

Johan Thurfjell

December 18, 2008 to January 17, 2009

opening reception Thursday December 18, 2008 6-9pm

David Salow Gallery

977 N. Hill Street

Los Angeles, CA 90012

contact: David Salow, director

info@davidsalowgallery.com

213. 620. 0240

www.davidsalowgallery.com

Initiated in 2004, the Delusionarium series explores the huge and open topic of the discourse of the Romantic.  Loaded with potential meanings and aesthetic conversations, the topic is broad enough to allow for a great range of responses from artists.  Though there are occasional links in sensibility and/or form between projects, each Delusionarium artist poses his/her own specific relationship to the topic and to the conditions of the site.  Subject matter, materials, and methodology all range widely.

Delusionarium 4 includes works produced in various forms:  installation, performance, drawing, painting, photo, sculpture, video, and collaboration.

In the execution of Delusionarium 4 the curatorial/organizational agenda of the Delusionarium series has taken great steps toward a more collaborative, social process.  Many decisions were made collectively among Benson and the 3 gallery directors, John Knuth, Spencer Douglass, and David Salow.  Other decisions were influenced heavily by artists’ input.  The galleries’ support for the concept of the exhibition developed into a unique opportunity for the 24 artists, some of whom elected to show work in more than 1 space.  Others decided to produce works that slip into interaction with each other, inside a sort of collaborative show within a show.  In order to add complexity to the blurring of 1 show into 3, each gallery has an exhibition sub-title, devised by an artist showing at that space.