Christopher Russell opening April 11 in Mezzanine

Gallery News January 3, 2010 Katie Herzog on Daily Serving December 20, 2009 Justin Hansch one of top shows of 2009 LA Times! November 27, 2009 Christopher Russell Book Release, Sun. Nov. 29 November 20, 2009 Dawn Kasper performs at Leo Koenig. Nov. 20 November 11, 2009 Steven Bankhead, Location Location Location reviewed in Artillery Magazine November 11, 2009 Margie Schnibbe at the Echo Park Film Center - Nov. 13 October 18, 2009 The Hills are Alive, opens Oct. 24 curated by Laurie Steelink. Featuring Kate Harding, Aaron Noble, Chris Wilder October 17, 2009 Ami Tallman on The Flog October 14, 2009 Jason Yates reviewed in Artreview Magazine October 14, 2009 Ami Tallman on Saatchi On Line

April 7, 2009 Russell is continuing to explore themes of domestic decay that were pursued in his recent exhibition, Budget Decadence, at The Hammer Museum. For his first exhibition with Circus Gallery, Christopher will be showing three new “stacks” in our Mezzanine Gallery. Russell’s “stacks” are composed of identical photographs of empty domestic interiors that have been manipulated in a range of different ways, from elaborate and detailed drawings scratched into the photographic surface to more harsh gestures such as running the photographic print over with a car. Additionally, this show will introduce new editions of Russell’s text-wallpapers, short fictional texts authored by Russell and then transformed -letter by letter, into wallpaper patterns. These large editions of text-wallpaper are intended to make Russell’s signature works available at a reasonable cost, keeping with his history of ‘zines and independent publications.