Altered States at Patrick Painter represents yet another collective representation of irrational modes of being where sometimes the simplest gesture is the most oddly satisfying. Comprised of Justin Bower, Martin Kippenberger, Rinus Van De Velde, Valie Export and Mike Kelley, it’s Kippenberger’s elegantly twisted drawings on hotel stationary that resonate the most profoundly here. Punctuated with strangely unsettling questions like “what did the Americans do with their fingers?” Kippenberger conflates one eccentric, and often darkly disturbing musing with another wherein a human hand is as much a shadow of itself as it is an appendage to profit by. 

Patrick Painter
2525 Michigan Ave, Unit B2 – Santa Monica, CA 90404
show runs through May 23, 2015