DIRT CLUB - Dylan Roberts
Thanks to everyone who’s come by Franchise LA to see Dirt Club, we’re open through April 22nd. This coming Friday we’ll be open late during Chinatown LA First Fridays. Gallery hours are by appointment Monday-Thursday and Friday + Saturday 11am-5pm (except First Fridays open til 8pm)
Dylan Roberts’ pictures speak in our modern language: screenshots of Google Earth maps, cellphone photography, highly-saturated internet graphics. Their vocabulary is at once familiar and skewed, recognizably, decidedly human, yet made strange by their deeply layered construction and hallucinatory palette. Divorced from their source material and overlaid with snatches of text, swooping parabolas, and vibrant, at times lurid color, they become something new and resolutely themselves. Echoes of their past lives persist but are drowned out. They exist as total products of their time. CONTACT: HELLO@THISISFRANCHISE.COM FOR A PRICE LIST
HR GIGER: NY CITY - FACSIMILE EDITION (1981-2021)
Originally published in 1981 by Ugly Publishing Zurich—Giger’s own fictional publishing house—this rare artist book is now republished by KALEIDOSCOPE on the occasion of the “HRGNYC” exhibition at Lomex Gallery, New York.
Collecting memories from the artist’s various trips to New York City, the book features large-format images of the iconic series of 28 paintings he created as a homage to the city he was utterly fascinated with since his childhood. His vision of the city—a habitat of monolithic mazes of heavy machinery interlaced with oversized metallic cockroaches and deep-burrowing subway cars—is juxtaposed with illustrations, personal reflections, press clippings, and the diary of his Hollywood trip in 1979 for Alien’s Oscar win. With a preface by Timothy Leary.
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Chaos in the CBD new mix…
“An ode to what we believe are the hidden gems of house music that have made a huge impact on us. We’ve adored so many of these tracks for years, some we’ve never been able to play out until now because we couldn't source high quality digital versions or vinyl was super rare. It’s an honor to rejuvenate these records. To keep the flames alive is very important to us. We’ve loved the process of compiling this, and how much work fabric put into licensing these tracks makes it even more special.”
FRANCHISE ISSUE 07 SOLD OUT IN MOST STORES / STILL AVAILABLE ON OUR WEBSITE
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