Good Naked (Los Angeles CA) is pleased to present:
HURLYBURLY / a 3-person exhibition of works by
Liv Aanrud
Tynan Kerr
Christopher Ulivo
OPEN by appointment / February 7 - March 10
For more information and images, please contact info@goodnakedgallery.com.
2413 Hyperion Avenue / Los Angeles CA 90027
PERFORMANCES
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7TH / 7 P
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8TH / 7 P
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9TH / 7 P
featuring Larry Cedar performing a selection of monologues from:
No Man’s Land by Harold Pinter
Hurlyburly by David Rabe
Little Murders by Jules Feiffer
Hamlet by Wiliam Shakespeare
Ivanov by Anton Checkov
The Prisoner of 2nd Ave by Neil Simon
/ directed by Pamela Cedar /
Good Naked (Los Angeles CA) is pleased to present HURLYBURLY, a 3 - person exhibition opening Friday, February 7, 2025 featuring Larry Cedar performing a selection of monologues at 7pm on February 7th, 8th & 9th.
The paintings in this exhibition were curated in response to these monologues, canonized in their questioning of ritual, familial roles, and purpose, yet grounded in their humor and relief in life's absurdities. Each artwork takes on a staging of such questions in it's positioning of bodies in space - contending with their surroundings and each other to distinct ends.
Christopher Ulivo's egg tempera paintings imagine the confluences and collisions of fate, myth, personal lineage and the unintended consequences of unlimited wish fulfillment. The resulting images are visually dense and darkly humorous. In Liv Aanrud's tufted surfaces time becomes tactile and the rhythm of color and shape formation yield undulating passages of sculptural drawing. Viewers are invited to mine maximalist displays of daily life and enter utopic worlds populated by harmonious bodies that celebrate oneness with their surroundings. Tynan Kerr's chromatic tableaus and labyrinths depict elements of spiritual seeking as ephemeral figures engage in mundane or repetitive tasks with a lightness of clarity and focus.
HURLYBURLY will be on view by appointment February 7 - March 9, 2025.
at 2413 Hyperion - a community space for art and music.
For more information and images, please contact info@goodnakedgallery.com.
Liv Aanrud (b.1979) earned her B.F.A in painting from the University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire in 2001 and her M.F.A from Mason Gross School of Art, Rutgers University in 2011. Liv has taught at ARTworks Charter School, Santa Barbara City College, the Armory Center for the Arts, and has led workshops in the U.S and Canada. Aanrud’s work has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at Kravets Wehby Gallery in New York City, and BozoMag, New Image Art, Arvia, 1700 Naud and TSA-LA in Los Angeles. Solo shows also include Finlandia University in Hancock MI, Sierra Nevada College, Lake Tahoe, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, and John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY, Oasis Gallery, Marquette, MI and Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York City. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions across the U.S., Taiwan, Germany, and Spain. Aanrud currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Tynan Kerr (b. 1985) received a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art Design. He also exhibits under the name AMTK in collaboration with Andrew Mazorol. His work has been featured in New American Paintings, Art Forum, publications by McSweeney’s, Milkweed Editions, and The University of California Press among others. Grants received include the Jerome Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship. He works with oil paints along with more indirect processes involving materials like beeswax, tree resins, egg yolks, dyes and pigments which leave space for chance and nonlinear associative meaning within and between the works. Kerr lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Christopher Ulivo (b.1977) received a BFA from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, and an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. He has exhibited and curated exhibitions across the United States and Europe including: Half Gallery, Los Angeles; Track16 Gallery, Los Angeles; Susan Inglett Gallery, New York; Axel Obiger, Berlin; Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara; The Felix Art Fair, Los Angeles; The Armory Show, New York; and The Benaki Museum, Athens. Ulivo lives and works in Ventura, CA.
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Larry Cedar is a film, television, and stage actor best known for his portrayal of opium addict Leon Stalsworth in the hit HBO series, Deadwood. He’s appeared in over one hundred television productions including six seasons on the award-winning PBS series Square One TV and more recently, Happy's Place, Young Sheldon, Grey's Anatomy, Law & Order, Mad Men, and Community. Feature film highlights include roles in Ivan Reitman’s Feds, "The Creature on the Wing" in Steven Spielberg’s remake, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Terry Gilliam’s Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, and the Ben Affleck/Superman biopic, Hollywoodland. On stage Larry has portrayed such historical figures as Hoagy Carmichael, ace WWI fighter pilot Billy Bishop, President Thomas Jefferson, and most recently Senator Mitch McConnell in 44: The Obama Musical. An avid monologist, Cedar has adapted and starred in several award-winning one-man stage productions based on the works of his favorite authors, George Orwell (Orwellian), Fyodor Dostoevsky (Notes from the Underground), and Franz Kafka (The Trial, The Hunger Artist, The Burrow, and Letter to My Father).
Pamela Cedar began collaborating with her husband Larry Cedar in 2015 to stage his six one-man literary adaptations
based on the works of writers George Orwell, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Franz Kafka. She won the award for Best Director of a One-Man Show at the North Hollywood Fringe Festival for her work on Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground. She then directed Larry in Orwellian (at The Sherry Theater), and Kafka’s The Trial, The Hunger Artist, The Burrow, and Letter to My Father.