Jeffrey Vallance: Now More Than Ever

These are drawings of the drawings in the show.

I went to the opening for Jeffrey Vallance:  Now More Than Ever at Edward Cella Art and Architecture gallery in Los Angeles, California.  The exhibition title is a reference to, a nod to the Richard Millhouse Nixon Presidential Re-election campaign of 1972.

On the walls of the main room, there were 12 new drawings and an octopus painted over some presidential campaign signs.  The exhibition guide, a piece of literature, said that there were twenty-two drawings in all, but not all were up on the walls.  In the center of the main room stood a hugely tall, flat file, about 20 or 30 drawers high.  It was a monolith of drawings so high that there was a ladder next to it so you could see the drawings in the top drawers.  I didn't at first think it was part of the exhibition because it didn't look like art, but it was very exhibitionistic, featuring 100 drawings out of Mr. Vallance's past.

Here is a picture of the monolith of drawings.

 

If you like drawings with multi-mediums and collage, then you should go, it's your moral imperative. Go see them even though Jeffrey is a male.

His drawing is largely unhampered by his maleness, but that maleness does place his art a step beneath any woman's art.  I was able to overlook this fact and accept the show for what it was, fun.

The show featured Blinky, the friendly hen, in more ways than one.  She was resting in state for a stream of mourners and was the subject of a drawing showing her vivacious, severed head.  It was dramatic, both the drawing and her stately resting.

Some of Jeffrey's less recent works were on loan to the gallery, and these were nifty but I saw these as a foundation upon which the latest works were built.

The gallery is immaculate, and the restroom was relaxing and really clean.

This article presupposes familiarity and knowledge with Jeffrey's work.  If you want more info, use the search engine of your choice to look him up and down.  He is on the internet.