Everybody comes to TerryWood, they wanna make it in the neighborhood…they like the smell of it in Terrywood… How can it hurt you when it LOOKS so good?
Call it pop irony, but it seems all too appropriate that Terry Richardson’s first solo exhibition TERRYWOOD opens late next month in Los Angeles. The show presents over 25 of his latest photographs, inspired by the multiple facets of Hollywood life.TERRYWOOD opens Feb 24, at OHWOW Gallery and runs through March 31. Click here for more information.
Terryworld meets Hollywood, as the local characters, familiar landscapes, and architectural details, now verge on having a new identity. With images such as Untitled (Hollywood), and Untitled (Nude), both photographs of the proverbial chintzy signs that are ubiquitous throughout Hollywood, Richardson illustrates his proclivity for branding whatever subject matter he approaches. Through a medium not typically understood as effective in translating an artist’s personality, Richardson manages to make his hand evident within his photographs. His identity is unmistakably present here, as if he created the very objects and scenes his camera captures. An artist often attributed with changing the field of photography, Richardson also defies the ideological limitations of the practice, while redefining an epitome. TERRYWOOD takes all that Hollywood represents – the celebrity, broken dreams, kitsch, and sorted history – but, just as with all of Richardson’s well-known work, he re-contextualizes familiar imagery, re-identifying it with characteristics reflective of his own persona, imparting them with a different narrative.
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Kendrick 'GREATeclectic' Daye
GREATeclectic aka Kendrick Daye is a DJ, artist and the Editor of Art Nouveau Magazine. As a freelance journalist and photographer his work has been featured in the NY Times Magazine, Ebony Magazine, Upscale Magazine, Creative Loafing, Honeymag.com & Yo-Raps.com.
