26 Random Words Arranged Alphabetically with 26 Unrelated Images

Join us for the opening of Ansel Krut's 26 Random Words Arranged Alphabetically with 26 Unrelated Images in The Mike Kelley Gallery at Beyond Baroque. The exhibition displays the progress of the artist's book of the same name, from the book's initial conception through the various trial runs at the designers and printers till the final printing. Krut takes 26 randomly chosen words and matches them to his own drawings without assigning any obvious correlation between the word and the image. The exhibition includes the first texts, wet proofs, front and back cover options, original drawings and other leftovers as the book made its way towards publication.

Light refreshments will be provided during the gallery viewing.

About the artist
Ansel Krut was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1959. He studied medicine for 2 years before switching to Fine Art and he graduated with a BA from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1982. After a scholarship to the Cite des Arts in Paris he completed an MA in painting at the Royal College of Art in London. He was the Abbey Major Scholar in Painting at the British School at Rome in 1986/87 and then stayed on in Italy for a subsequent 3 years, returning to London in 1990. He now lives and works in London. Krut was a visiting lecturer at the RCA from 2006 to 2014 and he has taught at many other art colleges throughout the UK. He was an artist-lecturer at the National Gallery in London from 2004 to 2012. His work remains informed by the years he spent growing up in South Africa, his art retaining what Ed Krčma in a catalogue essay called “an unapologetic will to insubordination” with imagery that has “arisen from a ferment of intermingled sources: from the enchanted collective narratives of folklore, to the differently dark ruins of history”.

This program is FREE. The Mike Kelley Gallery is located on the second floor at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 681 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles, United States