Houseguest: Mute Flesh
- – This is a past exhibition
Artist EJ Hill Selects from the Grunwald Center Collection
EJ Hill is the curator for the latest iteration of Houseguest, a series in which a contemporary artist is invited to create an exhibition from the collections of the museum and the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts. Composed over months of visits to the Grunwald Center, Mute Flesh explores traces and transcendence in works by Eve Fowler, Barbara T. Smith, Charles White, David Wojnarowicz, and others, many of which play on the associative capacity of the color pink.
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Houseguest: Mute Flesh—EJ Hill Selects from the Grunwald Center Collection, installation viewHammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 1–August 25, 2024. Photo: Jeff McLane. -
Houseguest: Mute Flesh—EJ Hill Selects from the Grunwald Center Collection, installation viewHammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 1–August 25, 2024. Photo: Jeff McLane. -
Houseguest: Mute Flesh—EJ Hill Selects from the Grunwald Center Collection, installation viewHammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 1–August 25, 2024. Photo: Jeff McLane. -
Houseguest: Mute Flesh—EJ Hill Selects from the Grunwald Center Collection, installation viewHammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 1–August 25, 2024. Photo: Jeff McLane. -
Houseguest: Mute Flesh—EJ Hill Selects from the Grunwald Center Collection, installation viewHammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 1–August 25, 2024. Photo: Jeff McLane. -
Houseguest: Mute Flesh—EJ Hill Selects from the Grunwald Center Collection, installation viewHammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 1–August 25, 2024. Photo: Jeff McLane. -
EJ Hill, Kiss, 2020Neon. Courtesy of EJ Hill. © EJ Hill. Photo: Jeff McLane. -
Charles White, Prophet I, 1975Color lithograph. 27 1/8 x 37 1/8 in. (68.9 x 94.3 cm). Collection UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum. © 1975 The Charles White Archives -
![A bright pink poster reading "A spectacle and nothing strange"]()
Eve Fowler, A spectacle and nothing strange, 2011–2012Screen print. Sheet: 28 × 22 in. (71.1 × 55.9 cm). UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum. Purchased with funds provided by the Helga K. and Walter Oppenheimer Acquisition Fund. © Eve Fowler, Courtesy Gordon Robichaux, New York and Morán Morán, Los Angeles -
![A photoprint of a man masturbating, printed over an advertisement for "freshly ground chuck"]()
David Wojnarowicz, Jean Genet Masturbating in Metteray Prison, 1983Color screen print. Sheet: 30 1/2 × 22 1/2 in. (77.5 × 57.2 cm). UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum. Gift of John Morace and Tom Kennedy. © Estate of David Wojnarowicz -
![Collaged image of a form with human, animal, and mechanical features]()
Wangechi Mutu, Homeward Bound, 2010Archival pigment print with silk screen. Sheet: 25 x 19 3/8 in. (63.5 x 49.2 cm). UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum. Gift of Jacob Samuel. © 2006 Wangechi Mutu & Wangechi Mutu Studio
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