tall tales
Terry
Allen The Exact Moment It Happens in the West: Stories, Pictures and Songs
from the ‘60s ‘til Now / L.A. Louver gallery / I attended a walk-through of
the show Thursday, July 18, 2019
Terry
Allen’s art is a wild jumble of drawings, paintings, stories, videos, musical
albums, radio plays, sculptural figures, live performance, and other works on
paper, through the years narratively woven together in large and sprawling
groups, represented by what one might describe as symbolic objects in this
large retrospective show, The Exact Moment It Happens in the West, at LA
Louver Gallery in Los Angeles. As the title of the show suggests, Allen is an
intensely “western” artist, beginning with his “Cowboy and the Stranger” series
(1969), and moving into his important recording album Juarez (1975),
most of the early works relating to his upbringing in Lubbock, Texas, despite
his birth in Wichita, Kansas.
Yet Allen’s stories, expressed in so
many mediums, are anything but simple story-telling. Even with the limited
images and objects displayed in this show, the LA Louver presentation make us
realize that his narrative is anything but the standard notion of fiction and
moves, instead, into a kind of wry experimentalism that might easily be labeled
as inscrutable and even obscurant.
But then that is not only the challenge
of Allen’s art, but its marvel. The stories this artist tells are not gentle
fables, but fabulous legends which the viewer and listener must put together to
tell the true tale.
Allen further challenges us by employing
so many personal aspects of his life as in the series of “Ring” (1976-80), which
explores his marital strife with his long-supportive wife Jo Harvey Allen,
ending in a small mock-up of a wrestling ring where two puppets play out the
brutal dissonance between the two, which, at times, of course, might be
represented as coital intercourse.
Allen’s large body of work titled “Youth
in Asia” (1983-93) represents his memories of numerous friends who served in Vietnam,
having been betrayed by the US government or simply destroyed in the process.
After numerous paintings, photographs, and sculptures, he closed this series
with a music album Amerasia and a radio play, Torso Hell.
This artist’s work, even in its
vastness, let alone its often private and personal allusions, is clearly a
tough bone, at times, on which to gnaw. One might have to follow Allen through
his entire life and the art through its many manifestations to come to
understand him and gain a true enthusiasm for them. I realized that if only I
had the time to return again and again to his art, I might realize his true
significance. I must admit that first meeting him during a show at another area
museum years earlier, I was not impressed. But this time I was. And I think
Christina Carlos, who helped bring this show into existence, has done an
excellent job in revealing this sometimes rogue artist’s vast output.
This show lasts through December, and I
most certainly will attempt to see it once more before it disappears. I believe
that you could visit Allen’s work time after time without knowing fully how to
read its narrative. But isn’t that what great fiction is all about?
Los
Angeles, July 28, 2019
Reprinted
from Art Là-bas (August 2019).
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