SANTA MONICA, Samuel Freeman Gallery presents Love to Party Group Show, July 19 - August 16, 2008

Love To Party
at Samuel Freeman (formerly Patricia Faure Gallery)
July 19 to August 16, 2008

Pictured: Buzz (left) and Angelica (right) by Michelle Wiener

(Santa Monica, CA - June, 2008) For its summer group show (opening July 19, 2008), Samuel Freeman will exhibit work selected around the question of what an artist calls a drawing. Love To Party is not your typical drawing show, however. Rather than attempting to expand the boundaries of the genre, Love To Party relies on a very simple curatorial test: each participating artist must personally consider his or her submitted work a drawing. To that end, the exhibition will feature sculpture, painting, and classical "drawings", ranging in scale and material.

Taking its name from a Craig Kauffman piece titled "Love to Patty", Love To Party is a nod to the gallery's founder Patricia R. Faure and the gallery's rich history. Like Samuel Freeman's current artist roster, Love to Party draws together many friends of the gallery --the artists that put L.A. on the map-- for exhibition alongside an exciting array of emerging artists, including:

John Altoon
Larry Bell
Billy Al Bengston
Jonothan Borofsky
Tony DeLap
Shingo Francis
Jessie Homer French
Robert Graham
Scott Grieger
Salómon Huerta
Yoshio Ikezaki
Craig Kauffman
Adam Koford
Blue McRight
Margaret Nielsen
Rona Pondick
Ken Price
Ed Ruscha
Michelle Wiener