Free Clinic #1
Organized by The Action Bureau

Joe Deutch
Jeff Huckleberry
Jamie McMurry

THE ACTION BUREAU is pleased to present FREE CLINIC #1, the first installment in a forthcoming series which features new works in performance by contemporary artists. FREE CLINIC #1 will take place on Tuesday, August 9, 2011 from 7pm-10pm and is hosted by Human Resources, the performance-focused art collective occupying the former Cottage Home Gallery in Chinatown. The FREE CLINIC provides a platform for artists to explore action-based performance art and will pair Los Angeles-based artists with those from the performance community at large. The FREE CLINIC will also engage the local public with the growing discourse surrounding the performance art medium. Each clinic in the series will include a publication featuring photographs and writings on the artists’ work, to be distributed free-of-charge to attendees.

FREE CLINIC #1 presents live works by renowned artists Joe Deutch, Jeff Huckleberry, and Jamie McMurry. These artists have reputations for creating intensely visceral works which engage the audience in their highly personal, often-times violent battle against the dominant moral economy. Through their unique methods, each structures a sequence of actions, which together describe a collision of physical and psychological space. Each artist has idiosyncratic means of attributing value to their own actions and in doing so, they question the rationality that allows us to perpetuate cultural standards at the expense of our own desires.

About the Artists

JOE DEUTCH received a BFA from Webster University, St. Louis, in 2001 and an MFA from UCLA in 2007. Working in video, installation, and performance, Deutch has been steadily barreling challenge against the rational. He has exhibited at PS1 MOMA, and is represented in Los Angeles by Parker Jones Gallery.

JEFF HUCKLEBERRY received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Jeff has been performing art for the last 20 years, both nationally and internationally. Upcoming exhibitions include TIME EATERS w/ Vela Phelan at Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY September 8th, and Préavis de désordre Urbain, Marseille, France, September 17th-24th.

JAMIE McMURRY has been an active organizer, educator and artist in the fields of performance, installation, video and conceptual art for over fifteen years and is currently based in Los Angeles. His upcoming exhibitions include: SubStation Gallery, Singapore; Existence Festival, Brisbane, Australia; Guangzohu Live, Guangzohu, China; and curator of “This Is Performance Art” exhibit, CCA Glasgow,Scotland.

About the Organizers

THE ACTION BUREAU is a curatorial collective founded by artists Parker Davis and Paul Waddell.
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