exhibitions
Dennis Klaas HOEKSTRA:
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Artist Spencer Sweeney
Actress Selma Blair photographed by Brad Elterman for Carine Roiteld's CR Fashion Book 8
"With its mirrored DJ booth, kitschy decor, and single-table VIP room, the tiny boîte at 7561 Sunset Boulevard became the haunt for everyone from Elton John to Led Zeppelin to Iggy Pop, who famously cut himself in the space during a performance with the Stooges. In fact, Joan Jett and Cherie Curie met there for the first time. This week, the iconic space, now home to Shirley Morales’s ltd los angeles gallery, returned to its “Rodney on the ROQ” roots with the opening of an installation by the artist Dennis Hoekstra…"
- Michael Slenske, W Magazine
"Sunset Boulevard is chock full of ghosts of entertainment's past. Artist Dennis Hoekstra realized this when he learned the history of the building now occupied by ltd los angeles. In the 1970s it was the site of the glitter rock club Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco, managed by the eponymous L.A. rock kingmaker and radio DJ dubbed "the mayor of the Sunset Strip." In July, the gallery presented re-creations of the original venue's DJ booth and VIP area, meticulously reconstructed from vintage photos. Hearkening back to the site's former purpose, the installation will act as a venue for musical acts until July 2016.
This week, the Fell-Apart Team (writer Jan Tumlir) and the Bushes (musician Nick Lowe and artist Ry Rocklen) perform."
- Art In America Magazine
Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco
Gallery: ltd los angeles
July 2015 - July 2016
Selected guests and performances: Artists Spencer Sweeney, Alex Becerra, T. Kelly Mason, Radamés "Juni" Figueroa, Rachel Mason, actress Selma Blair, writer Jan Tumlir, Photographer Brad Elterman, musicians Dave Grohl and Pat Smear, Jennifer Herrema, Smokey, Death Valley Girls, filmmaker Kansas Bowling and Rodney Bingenheimer.
In January 2010, Rodney Bingenheimer visited ltd los angeles on its opening day and shared the history of the gallery space with ltd los angeles founder, Shirley Morales. Since then, they have discussed the possible re-presentation of his eponymous club. Morales invited Hoekstra to work in close collaboration with the gallery and Bingenheimer to realize a re-presentation of this iconic 1970s glam club. Bingenheimer generously provided unprecedented access to an archive of vintage photos, videos, vinyl records, posters and celebrity memorabilia originally displayed in the club.
Hoekstra’s sculpture, painting and installation practice is informed by the European artisanal traditions of faux-bois and faux-marbre, Hollywood set fabrication techniques, suburban backyard Halloween haunted houses and the vernacular of Disney theme parks especially their “dark rides.” In his formative years, the artist toured Disneyland’s fabrication facilities extensively with his father, “Dutch” Hoekstra, a member of their creative fabrication team from 1964 until 1979.
Inspired by Gordon Matta-Clark’s Bingo (1974), Hoekstra’s installation takes the form of a stand-alone sculpture with the structure of Rodney Bingenheimer’s English Disco echoing Matta-Clark’s extracted wall segments. The club’s DJ booth, VIP room, and partial brick wall appear to have been extracted from its original location within the space and repositioned in its current site approximately 20 feet away. The VIP room, featuring a cutout window vignette framed by “RODNEY BINGENHEIMER’S” in chunky glitter text, recalls Joseph Cornell’s boxed assemblages. In the tradition of other installations by Los Angeles based artists, such as Ed and Nancy Kienholz and Jason Rhoades’ Black Pussy, Hoekstra’s Rodney Bingenheimer’s English Disco will be activated by performances and DJ sets throughout the year.
- Kathy Grayson
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Go With The Flow
The Hole
312 Bowery
New York, NY 10012
July 10 - August 23, 2014
The Hole is proud to present our summer exhibition in the main galleries, Go With The Flow, looking at the diverse and contemporary uses of sprayed paint. From aerosol to airbrush and further into the field of atomized paint, these artworks range from the slickly gradiented to the more surreptitiously sprayed, with a lot of flying paint in between.
Artists included: Adam Henry, Austin Lee, Brian Belott, Dennis Hoekstra, Eric Cahan, Evan Gruzis, Greg Bogin, Jesse Edwards, Jessica Ciocci, JIM JOE, KATSU, Keltie Ferris, Michael Dotson, Michael Staniak, Rosson Crow, Timothy Uriah Steele, Trudy Benson, Wendy White, Zane Lewis
9 Dudley Project
9 Dudley Ave
Venice Beach, CA 90291
January 30 - February 24 2014
Next Stop Stop It, Curated by Kristin Kahler and David Quadrini.
Artists included: Larry Bell, Theodore Boyer, Jeff Elrod, Mark Flood, Dennis Hoekstra, K.K., Brian Kenney and Slava Mogutin, Andrew Kuo, Dean Levin, Hanna Liden, Nate Lowman, Grear Patterson, Adina Popescu, David Quadrini, Nick Stuart, Ian Vanrick, Henry Vincent, Erin Wasson.