Come Together | Clinton Hill Works from 1964/1965
432 S. Alameda St. Los Angeles, CA 90013
Sunday, January 13 at 12:00 PM 5:00 PM
Ends Mar 24, 2019
Royale Projects is pleased to announce ‘Come Together’, a group exhibition featuring Karen Lofgren, Ken Lum, Joel Otterson and Rubén Ortiz Torres, opening Sunday January 13 and running through March 24. John Lennon and George Harrison first experimented with LSD, unexpectedly, at a dinner party in the spring of 1965. The use of psychedelic drugs was a milestone in the Beatles career, transforming everything from their sound and influences to their public perception and personalities. Shortly after, Timothy Leary, a counter-culture psychologist known for his research of the therapeutic benefits of psychoactive substances, approached Lennon to write a campaign song for his ill-fated run for governor against Ronald Reagan. While Lennon struggled with writing the song, Leary was arrested for possession of marijuana, abruptly ending his political career. The singer-songwriter took his fragmented draft to the band and, from this, birthed a number-one hit of collaged nonsensical verses that is “Come Together”. This exhibition consists of works that similarly, force disparate obscure ideas to come together into profoundly bizarre yet impactful singular objects. __ Royale Projects is pleased to announce an exhibition of works by Clinton Hill opening Sunday January 13 and running through March 24. Let time retreat in the exhibition that never occurred. This solo show consists entirely of paintings and works on paper which are all part of a substantial body of work only recently rediscovered. Despite a significant career stretching from the 1950s to his death in 2003, very few of Hill’s works from this time have ever been on public display until Royale Projects debuted a small sampling that was “one of the most buzzed about presentations at the 2018 Frieze Fair in New York” according to Ideel Art. This exhibition will continue to contribute to the reappraisal of Hill as one of the most important voices in American abstraction.