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LOCATION: Lane Meyer Projects - 2528 Walnut St

CATEGORY: Art Events

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  • Mon, Mar 8, 2021 - Sun, Mar 21, 2021  

Jorge Elbrecht (b. San Jose, Costa Rica, 1978) is a composer, performer and visual artist holding a BFA from Cooper Union and an MFA from Columbia University. He lives and works between Denver, Los Angeles and Costa Rica. Information about Elbrecht largely comes from the executors of his estate, which claim full control over the artist’s creative output, both past and present. According to his estate, Elbrecht’s dissatisfaction with the milieu of the day had developed into a pathology by his late twenties, resulting in dangerously high levels of stress and anxiety as the thematic content of his work grew darker. His deterioration culminated in the onset of rapid aging that saw his health decline markedly. Today, though menaced by horrific imagery on a daily basis, the artist is said to only paint traditional-style oil paintings of landscapes, floral arrangements and the like. The executors of his estate, feeling this does not fully represent the entire picture, have hired outside artists to interpret Elbrecht’s abstract visions, as well as to document him and the artifacts that surround his practice. These supplementary images are presented as Elbrecht’s artwork in conjunction with any paintings or drawings completed by his own hand. Previously, Elbrecht’s work has explored connections between sound, performance, drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, video and animation. His work as a member of the art company Lansing - Dreiden (2000-present) seeks to utilize the blurred line between art and commerce as a vehicle for fictional stories. More recently, scattered live music performances feature a decrepit-looking Elbrecht, aged far beyond his years and helped onstage by a nurse. This, according to the estate, is confirmed by a test of Elbrecht’s DNA which shows his genetic age at 76.

Jorge has decided to donate 50% of sales to the Environmental Defense Fund

Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) is a nonprofit environmental advocacy group with the mission to preserve the natural systems on which all life depends. Guided by science and economics, the EDF finds practical and lasting solutions to the most serious environmental problems. What distinguishes EDF is the combination of what they protect and how they protect it. The EDF works to solve the most critical environmental problems facing the planet. This has drawn them to areas that space the biosphere: climate, oceans, ecosystems and health. Since these topics are intertwined, the EDF’s solutions take a multidisciplinary approach. The EDF works in concert with other organizations - as well as with business, government and communities - and avoids duplicating work already being done effectively by others.

(Image: Photo by Julianna Williams)


LMP PDA showcases artworks in our public-facing window vitrine every 2 weeks, until we open at full capacity. 100% of the sales will go directly to the artists, who have agreed to donate a portion to a social, political or otherwise engaged organization of their choice.

LMP PDA is viewable 24/7 and we invite you to stop by anytime while wearing a mask and practicing appropriate social distancing - it’s our way to propose a new way of thinking and looking together, while we’re staying apart.


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