"Modern life is a journey by car."
This sentence could have been written yesterday, but it actually appeared in The Lords and the New Creatures, Jim Morrison's first book of published poetry in 1971. Forty years later, little has changed: The car is still king in Los Angeles.
Now, a group show takes on the art of the car -- with a wink to the Lizard King, of course. "The Lords & the New Creatures," which runs in conjunction with Pacific Standard Time, is on view through mid-November at Nye+Brown, Tim Nye and Lexi Brown's new Culver City gallery.
{{{Note from The Ministry: The entire beautiful catalog for "The Lords & the New Creatures can be viewed here.}}}
"The show started with a shared interest and curiosity about art making in Los Angeles, and the special status of the car in all of that," said Rob Reynolds, a participating artist who co-organized the show with Nye and Brown. "Taken together, I think the work points to something anxious and interesting about how machines act on the unconscious, and our expectations of total mobility even as we understand how crazy it is."
