Concurrent with this exhibition Kevin Hanley will present the first showing of Vagrant Observations, a two-channel video work dating from 1996. This work takes one for a walk on Hollywood Boulevard. In this new setting Hanley’s trademark mechanical movements and slapstick effects are resolved in a trance-like mood. The piece has overtones of a 19th Century flaneur colliding with late-20th Century surveillance gear.
In January, Kevin Hanley’s one-person exhibition, Bearing and Delinquency, opened at ACME. in Los Angeles. He was born in 1969 at Sumter South Carolina Military Base. He received a BFA from Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, and an MFA from Art Center in Pasadena. He lives and works in Los Angeles.