Bankhead/LA Times Review

Gallery News June 13, 2008 Joey Kötting June 21 - July 19 in Project Space June 5, 2008 Margie Schnibbe "Honey Bunny" review on Artforum.com June 5, 2008 Steven Bankhead @ LAX Art May 24 - June 20, 2008 May 9, 2008 Kate Barclay @ CCE opening May 17 April 25, 2008 Bankhead/LA Times Review April 9, 2008 Modern Painters and Flash Art Reviews March 24, 2008 Benjamin Lord @ CCE, Opening April 5. March 13, 2008 See Rachel Mason's Performance in Zurich February 19, 2008 Feb. 23 7 - 9 pm CCE Rasmussen, Weber, and Nicely. February 9, 2008 Sunday LA Times Article

April 25, 2008 Steven Bankhead's show, Battery, gets written up in the LA Times! A Punk Take On Visual Culture If you've ever wondered what happened to the kid in high school revered by his male peers for the flawless manner in which he copied the logos of punk bands onto the covers of notebooks, he might, if he kept at it, have followed in the footsteps of Steven Bankhead, whose solo debut at the Circus Gallery combines an impressive knack for graphic reproduction with an ethos of punk-rock collage to explore the ramifications of life in an image-saturated society. The drawings, all 30 by 22 inches, are hung in groups of six on strips of plywood paneling that encircle the perimeter of the gallery. Each combines a handful of seemingly discordant elements drawn from photographs: animals, rock stars and naked girls, among others. Bankhead is hardly the first to use drawing as a tool of media excavation. Karl Haendel is one obvious precursor; Amy Adler and Mungo Thomson come to mind as well. There is an appealing tactility to Bankhead's version, however. The drawings are sharp but not fastidious; they're hung with staples and bear the marks of their handling. They also weave in an intriguing element of surrealism that, despite tipping occasionally toward the juvenile -- mating baboons inscribed with characteristics of Partridge family members, for instance, or predictably dull reproductions of porn -- clearly has the potential to evolve into something interesting. www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-galleries25apr25,0,433802.story