Jason Rhoades

Hauser Wirth & Schimmel presents the first major Los Angeles exhibition devoted to the politically charged art of Jason Rhoades, comprising six enveloping installation works.

Hauser Wirth & Schimmel presents “Jason Rhoades. Installations, 1994 – 2006”, the first major Los Angeles exhibition devoted to the politically charged, darkly exuberant art of Jason Rhoades. This comprehensive survey, comprising a group of six enveloping installation works, constitutes a long-overdue tribute to the artist in his own hometown.

Jason Rhoades, My Brother / Brancuzi , 1995. Carpet, wood, steel, small gasoline engines, tools plastic, donut machine, 68 x 14 x 288 cm. Installation view, "Jason Rhoades. My Brother / Brancuzi," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, 1995. © The Estate of Jason Rhoades. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth — **Top:** Jason Rhoades: Tijuanatanjierchandelier. Installation view at CAC Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Malaga, Spain, 2006. ©The Estate of Jason Rhoades. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and David Zwirner. **Above:** Jason Rhoades, *My Brother / Brancuz* , 1995. Carpet, wood, steel, small gasoline engines, tools plastic, donut machine, 68 x 14 x 288 cm. Installation view, "Jason Rhoades. My Brother / Brancuzi," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, 1995. © The Estate of Jason Rhoades. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

While Rhoades’ groundbreaking works found early recognition in Europe and New York, the artist spent the entirety of his career in Los Angeles, where he lived and worked until his untimely death in 2006 at the age of 41. The exhibition at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel is conceived to share and celebrate his unwavering vision of the world as an in nite, corpulent, and lustful universe of expressive opportunity.

Assertively pushing against the safety of cultural conventions, Rhoades broke accepted rules of public nicety and expanded the frontiers of artistic opportunity through unbridled, brazenly ‘Maximalist’ works. In short, Rhoades brought the impolite and culturally unspeakable to the center of the conversation.

Jason Rhoades, The Creation Myth, 1998. Mixed media installation, Dimensions variable. Installation view, ‘Jason Rhoades. The Creation Myth,’ Hauser & Wirth Zürich, 1998. © The Estate of Jason Rhoades. Courtesy Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin — Jason Rhoades, *The Creation Myth*, 1998. Mixed media installation, dimensions variable. Installation view, ‘Jason Rhoades. The Creation Myth,’ Hauser & Wirth Zürich, 1998. © The Estate of Jason Rhoades. Courtesy Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

18 February – 21 May 2017
Jason Rhoades. Installations, 1994 – 2006
Hauser Wirth & Schimmel
901 East 3rd Street, Los Angeles

Jason Rhoades

Hauser Wirth & Schimmel presents the first major Los Angeles exhibition devoted to the politically charged art of Jason Rhoades, comprising six enveloping installation works.

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