PSTL Gallery

Larry Krone
Here I Am

April 20-May 26, 2012

Please join us for the Opening Reception, Friday, April 20, 6pm-9pm

We will also be open for the Grand Center Gallery Walk on May 11, 5pm-9pm

"Larry Krone Here I Am" presents new work by the artist, continuing his ongoing exploration of masculine identity,showmanship, craft, and collaboration. The major pieces in the exhibition are his three "Then and Now (Latch HookHay Bales)". These attempts at life-sized sculptural representations of hay bales were made using yarn found asremnants from other people's knitting and crochet projects. The colors are as close as possible to natural hay, but thepalette is left largely to chance, creating a semi-accidental reference to pointillist and Impressionist painting,particularly Claude Monet's famous hay stack series. The yarn, found at thrift stores and senior centers, was alloriginally chosen by anonymous craftspeople based on their own needs, budget, and taste--partial skeins leftoverfrom innumerable afghans, sweaters, and baby blankets. Gathered by Krone and painstakingly latch-hooked over aperiod of many months, the combination of histories as embodied in the yarn represents a collaboration of all of theseidentities with Krone himself.Also on view are some recent works by Krone including a reverse glass painting, a letterpress edition, Love is in theAir drawings, and a photographic self portrait depicting Krone in his kitchen surrounded by patchwork quilts and hislatch hook hay bales, trying his best to reproduce Marilyn Monroe's famous nude calendar pose dressed only in hisown Underpants of Many Colors and a cowboy hat.

Larry Krone grew up in St. Louis, Missouri and now lives and works in New York City’s East Village. He has beenexhibiting his drawings, sculptures, installations and videos since the early 1990s, most notably at The ContemporaryBaltimore, The Museum of Contemporary Craft in collaboration with Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (Portland,OR), The Project Gallery (New York), The Front (New Orleans), Mark Pasek Gallery (New York), Rupert GoldsworthyGallery (Berlin), Elizabeth Leach Gallery (Portland, OR), The Whitney Museum of American Art Philip Morris Branch(New York), The New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York), the Drawing Center (New York), the Or Gallery(Vancouver), Philip Slein Gallery (St. Louis), and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis who, in 2006 presented“Larry Krone: Artist/Entertainer,” a ten-year retrospective of Larry Krone’s visual and performance work.Larry has incorporated performance in his work since 1996, performing his own brand of homespun country &western musical revues at music and art venues in New York including Joe’s Pub, La MaMa, Dixon Place, PS 122,Starlight Bar & Lounge, and the Whitney Museum of American Art as well as Mercer Union (Toronto), Croxhapox(Gent), Blueberry Hill (St. Louis), Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Better Days Project (Hamburg), and SomedayLounge (Portland, OR). Larry’s intensely detailed, hand sewn and embroidered stage costumes have inspired hisspin-off House of Larréon Oh! Couture collection of custom gowns and stage costumes, outfitting many of Larry’sdynamic performing friends and collaborators including Bridget Everett, Kenny Mellman, Neal Medlyn, Adrienne

Truscott, and his partner on and off the stage, Jim Andralis.

PSTL Gallery

3842 Washington Blvd.

Saint Louis, Mo. 63108

314-531-4304

Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10:30-5:00

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