DAVE MULLER – SUNSET, SUNRISE (REPEAT) B/W THE RECORD PAVILION
2022-06-27With Sunset, Sunrise (repeat) b/w The Record Pavilion, Muller looks back on his life of growing up in record stores. In a tribute to the slow and physical act of touching, browsing, and looking at records, this exhibition presents the artist’s treasured pastime, one that is becoming extinct as music consumption is increasingly intangible. The presentation unfolds in three parts: hand-painted wall murals, new paintings of records and record store paraphernalia, and an open-air, modernist pavilion for rehousing records.
Muller’s newest paintings draw from a reservoir of reference materials that the artist has amassed, including his scrupulous archive of price tags and hype stickers—a personal collection of roughly 1,500 unique decals from albums purchased. Depicting these at larger-than-life scale and layering them atop one another to fill the composition, Muller tapes off, gessoes, and paints each section of the work’s surface in thin, accumulating layers, in a nod to the analog and hand-done systems of music distribution.
Opposite – Youth Misspent (in Record Stores): $123.88 + 16.99 £, 2022
Exhibition runs through to August 13th, 2022
Blum & Poe
2727 South La Cienega Boulevard
90034 Los Angeles
