Don Edler

Don Edler’s hybrid political satire, experimental doc & speculative horror screening at Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Jan 10-Feb 7

7 February 2021

Don Edler is screening film Devil You Know online at LA’s Hunter Shaw Fine Art, running January 10 to February 7, 2021.

The LA-based artist behind last November’s Two Minutes to Midnight solo exhibition collaborated with OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model to write the script, which is described as a “hybrid of political satire, experimental documentary, and speculative horror”.

Devil You Know presents a near-future dystopia where the existing structures of contemporary United States media and capitalist nationalism is propagated through automated misinformation.

Watch film on the Hunter Shaw Fine Art website.**

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The New Abnormal: Information warfare & our volatile political present in Don Edler’s Two Minutes to Midnight solo exhibition

11 November 2019

Don Edler‘s Two Minutes to Midnight solo exhibition was on at Los Angeles’ Hunter Shaw Fine Art, running September 8 to October 27.

Taking its title from the unnerving current setting of the Doomsday Clock, Two Minutes to Midnight addresses propaganda and information warfare in our volatile political present through video, sculpture and installation. From post-truth misinformation to climate change, Edler responds to our precarious closeness to societal catastrophe, a situation that is referred to by Doomsday Clock founders as a “new abnormal”. As stated in the exhibition press release:

“Edler applies an aesthetic sensibility which encapsulates the maddening polarity of “the new abnormal”, presenting an environment that is at once chaotic and austere, laughably absurd and deadly serious.”**

Don Edler’s Two Minutes to Midnight solo exhibition was on at Los Angeles’ Hunter Shaw Fine Art, running September 8 to October 27, 2019.

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The Useful and the Decorative makes the commonplace appear new where art crosses design at The Landing, Jul 14 – Sep 2

13 July 2017

The Useful and the Decorative group exhibition is on at Los Angeles’ The Landing, opening July 14 and running to September 2.

The show, featuring work by Elevator MondaysDon Edler, Ryan Fenchel and Gabrielle Garland, among others, explores the relationship between art and design, as an homage to the location’s roots as once being a decorative arts gallery called Reform.

Inspired by the space that presented fine art among handmade furniture and ceramics, The Useful and the Decorative will showcase “art thinking about design” by this selection of artist that also includes Alexandra Hedison, Garry Knox Bennett, Myrton Purkiss and John Zane Zappas. Here, these intentionally non-functional objects ask, “What happens when an artist’s impractical eye is turned on a designer’s work?”

See The Landing website for details.**

Don Edler, ‘Chablet Tair’ (2017). Install view. Courtesy the artist.

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