The Los Angeles’ premiere provocateurs Lethal Amounts are excited to announce their first in-person art show since March 2020, Emma Ruth Rundle’s Dowsing Voice opening May 20.
The exhibit is the physical manifestation of Rundle’s EG2: Dowsing Voice album, which was released on May 13th. Rundle traveled alone to Wales in January of 2020 on a searching expedition. Searching for music, searching for meaning, searching for anything and everything. “What I found was a crack in the earth. A sacred spring. A liminal space. The Otherworld. An intercession with esoteric beings who dwell there and a chance to look upon them.,” says Rundle. “To be consumed by the crone and reborn with the spring. Here my ancestors and their gods shared the tongue of divine femininity - by way of voices, vision, place, and ‘channeled’ music.”
The bulk of the pieces in this exhibition was built in the summer and fall of 2020 at Rundle’s Louisville studio. The creation of this work coincided with a pause in touring, the end of Rundle’s marriage, and the isolation of the pandemic. “ This past year has been a time of deep reflection on the whole process of creating this work,” comments Rundle. “which for me, was the pursuit of escaping the conclusion that life is without context and without meaning.”
ABOUT LETHAL AMOUNTS
Lethal Amounts inhabits a physical gallery space in downtown Los Angeles that features three exhibition rooms and over 2,500 sq. ft. The gallery focuses on subversive and counter-cultural themes throughout history, addressing the social and artistic value of underground movements while highlighting taboo topics. They showcase the extremes of individuals who have moved culture forwards, living on the edge and outside of societal norms. Rock ’n Roll of the past has crossed over into pop culture fanaticism, street culture influences, and cult hero worship. Artists who have shown in the gallery include Leee Black Childers (the house photographer for Andy Warhol’s Factory), famed punk rock photographer Edward Colver, Nick Zinner from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Al Jourgensen, Psychic TV, and more. Additional highlights include the Nick Cave Smoking exhibit, Spiritual Cramp : Christian Death exhibit and documentary launch, Shawn M. Crahan (of Slipknot’s) His Whores exhibit, an Anton LaVey event featuring an exhibit of photography and ephemera from the colorful, and notorious cultural icon, Goodbye Pogo: The Art of John Wayne Gacy and Once Upon a Time in 69' : The Life of Charles Manson.
LETHAL AMOUNTS
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