Marcus Herse

JB Jurve is thrilled beyond belief to announce:

Geoff Tuck - To the Lighthouse; an exhibition with David Bell, John Burtle, Young Chung, Adam Feldmeth, Daniel Lara, Carrie Mc Ilwain, Davida Nemeroff, Ivette Soler, Geoff Tuck, Alexander Wolff, Aaron Wrinkle

Geoff Tuck is a Los Angeles based artist, best known as founder of Notes on Looking - Writings on Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. His writing, poetry, photos, videos and drawings, revolve around the act of observing.

His work interprets strategies of the Situationist’s drifter, witnessing art’s fleeting moments like a flanuer. His encounters with art and artists bring together a disparate community in a city that is as vast as Los Angles. Geoff’s material as an artist is the art world itself and his work presents a peculiar incarnation of the term of the soziale Plastik. As he states: “For the past two years I have gotten to know a lot of people and written about them, now I want to connect them.”

My Words

they cut and lead me nowhere

they mock me in my dreams

Each sentence causes shame

and every phrase brings me pain

Queasy - my gut wrenches

Tight - my butt clenches

Why do I show this stuff? Where can I hide?

Ego and desire, they drive me

Neurosis is my master

Attention my fuel

Hah!

And then I find something crazy, and am saved from my navel-gazin worrries

Briefly perhaps

But for long enough to get the work done

Posted on Notes on Looking, February 16, 2012 by Geoff Tuck

Dear friends,

Tuesday, June 19 is the final day for To the Lighthouse. JB Jurve will open at noon and then close with a toast at 8:00 PM.

We presented the work of eleven artists (plus a few more), each of whom as individuals support and investigate the work of other artists. In addition to this exhibition, we have had nine thought-provoking events: parties and conversations that will live in legend and that have served to join together several of our city's art worlds.

It was my hope to discover whether artworks and events produced by such artists would indicate their social engagement, and if in relation to each other they might serve as a group critique of the top down, heirarchical, single source art culture that currently prevails. Quoting a friend on a recent Parkfield retreat, "What if art objects exist as evidence of other experiences and as conduits to conversation?" Such a condition wouldn't obviate the art object, but it might lead outward, toward questions raised in conversaton by others, away from answers.

And as we move away from answers, the world gets more interesting.

Join us Tuesday at JB Jurve as we look at the work, talk, shake hands and give hugs and begin to understand what it is we have done.

David Bell, John Burtle, Young Chung, Adam Feldmeth, Daniel Lara, Carrie McIlwain, Davida Nemeroff, Ivette Soler, Geoff Tuck, Alexander Wolff, Aaron Wrinkle with an in-play addition from Andy Robert. Our hosts have been Marcus Herse and Michael Rey.

Thanks to all the above,

and thank you.

Geoff Tuck