August 5 – 28, 2011
Artist Reception: Friday, August 5th; 8-11 PM
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
What do you say to yourself when no one else is listening? No, not the good things that may be little white lies you fool yourself into believing. The bad things. The ones that would scare others, the ones that are soft and rotted, the ones you poke at until they burst. Those are your little grey secrets: half truths you repeat over and over, that are intended to remind you of your shortcomings…and sometimes, of your complete and utter failure.
With Little Grey Secrets, Jessicka Addams pokes at her characters’ soft spots until they bleed. They’re unraveling, damaged: masks askew, nooses tightening, strings dangling. Their world is not black or white, only grey – a color that has no opposite. They have no clear moral value. They’re stripped naked, but don’t get Freudian – the naked truth has nothing to do with grey secrets.
About Jessicka Addams
Armed with a glue gun and a dream, Florida-born, Los Angeles-based artist Jessicka Addams (also known as Jessicka) is also the founding member and singer of such seminal indie rock bands as Jack Off Jill and Scarling. As a child, Jessicka was obsessed with masks because they represented a place to hide and an opportunity for those who gazed upon them to seek out what lay beneath. As an adult, she uses masks as a symbol to show the myriad of ways we hide behind our own faces in order to protect our true selves daily. Jessicka has collaborated with La Luz alumni Mark Ryden, Marion Peck and Elizabeth McGrath as well as designers Tarina Tarantino and Jared Gold.
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