Highbrow Magazine - david connelly https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/david-connelly en Art Collective DOSSHAUS Continues the Legacy of Pop Art https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/10699-art-collective-dosshaus-continues-legacy-pop-art <div class="field field-name-field-cat field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/photography-art" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Photography &amp; Art</a></div></div></div><span class="submitted-by">Submitted by tara on Fri, 06/19/2020 - 20:03</span><div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/1dosshaus.jpg?itok=Ydn7CKNd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/field/image/1dosshaus.jpg?itok=Ydn7CKNd" width="320" height="480" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p> </p> <p>Downtown Los Angeles’s <strong>Corey Helford Gallery</strong> is currently featuring a new solo show from Los Angeles-based, award-winning collective <strong>DOSSHAUS</strong>.</p> <p> </p> <p>Founded in 2011, DOSSHAUS is the nom de guerre of <strong>David Connelly</strong>, whose work blends painting, sculpture, installation, photography, fashion, video, and performance; using recycled cardboard from the alleyways of Los Angeles, paper, and acrylic paint as their primary mediums, to create his own highly idealized universe.</p> <p> </p> <p>According to<em> </em>Connelly, “DOSSHAUS began has as an experiment in the continuum of Pop Art. I’ve always had a strong attachment to Pop. When I first engaged with the work of Warhol, Kruger, Johns, Haring and others, I was struck by how these artists could take seemingly superficial imagery and re-contextualize it in a way that made me think and feel so deeply. Pop gave the power back to the artist, wresting the determination of what qualifies as art away from collectors and curators who eventually came to follow the artists’ lead on the subject. Pop turned ideas into art. It demanded attention by asking questions like, ‘If art is everywhere, what is art?’ The answer, Pop suggested to me, was ‘You decide.’ As an artist, that opened a whole world to me.</p> <p> </p> <p>Lately, I’ve found myself wanting to reengage with the aspects of Pop Art that drew me to the movement in the first place:  Pop as the replication/re-contextualization of images, Pop as portraiture, Pop as protest, Pop as celebration. This is a show about ideas firing fast and direct from many angles. Yet every piece in the show will have at least one piece in direct conversation."</p> <p> </p> <p><strong><em>The exhibit is on view through July 3 at <a href="https://www.coreyhelfordgallery.com/" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline">Corey Helford Gallery</a> (Los Angeles).</em></strong></p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/2dosshaus.jpg" style="height:400px; width:600px" /></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>About DOSSHAUS:</strong></p> <p> </p> <p>DOSSHAUS is an art collective founded in 2011 and the current nom de guerre of David Connelly. Created in response to a society saturated with social media-generated images in which reality itself seems all the more relative, DOSSAHAUS uses recycled cardboard, paper, and acrylic to create its own highly idealized universe. This cardboard world is at once separate from and a product of modern culture.</p> <p> </p> <p>DOSSHAUS have taken part in more than 20 group art exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York and Miami; they staged their first solo exhibition at Gregorio Escalante Gallery in Los Angeles (February 2016); followed by their second major solo show in L.A. at Corey Helford Gallery (April 2018), entitled <em>Paper-Thin Hotel,</em> an immersive, multi-room exhibit of cardboard sculptures centered around the theme of the American Dream.</p> <p> </p> <p>DOSSHAUS has often paid homage to the music that influences their art. In advance of the <a href="http://www.coreyhelfordgallery.com/shows/dosshaus/anteroom/" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline"><em>Paper-Thin Hotel</em></a> exhibition, DOSSHAUS released a double 7” single (2017) by the same name (<a href="http://www.dosshaus.com/record/" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline">“Paper-Thin Hotel”</a>), in collaboration with Sympathy for the Record Industry. The limited-edition single release examines the role of visual art in music and has the distinction of being the first officially released record to be made entirely of cardboard.</p> <p> </p> <p>DOSSHAUS received the award for Outdoor Sculpture at the 2018 Lucca Biennale in Lucca, Italy, and have been featured in <em>Juxtapoz</em>, <em>Hi-Fructose</em>, <em>ELLE</em>, <em>VICE</em>, and on the cover of <em>LA Weekly</em>, as well as in Lori Zimmer's 2015 anthology, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Art-Cardboard-Creativity-Collaboration-Storytelling/dp/1631590278/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1439399442&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=the+art+of+cardboard" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline"><em>The Art of Cardboard</em></a> (Rockport Publishers).</p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/3dosshaus.jpg" style="height:400px; width:600px" /></p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/4dosshaus.jpg" style="height:600px; width:400px" /></p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/5dosshaus.jpg" style="height:600px; width:394px" /></p> <p> </p> <p><img alt="" src="https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/sites/default/files/6dosshaus.jpg" style="height:600px; width:400px" /></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Highbrow Magazine</strong></p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/dosshaus" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">dosshaus</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/david-connelly" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">david connelly</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/art-collective" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">art collective</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/corey-helford-gallery" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">corey helford gallery</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/los-angeles-artists" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">los angeles artists</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/new-exhibits" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">new exhibits</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/pop-art" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">pop art</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/andy-warhol" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Andy Warhol</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/keith-haring" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">keith haring</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/jasper-johns" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">jasper johns</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">The Editors</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-pop field-type-list-boolean field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Popular:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">not popular</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-photographer field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Photographer:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">All images courtesy of Corey Helford Gallery</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-bot field-type-list-boolean field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Bottom Slider:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Out Slider</div></div></div> Sat, 20 Jun 2020 00:03:03 +0000 tara 9630 at https://www.highbrowmagazine.com https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/10699-art-collective-dosshaus-continues-legacy-pop-art#comments