Museum as Retail Space (MaRS) is an artwork, and was a 6,000-square-foot commercial contemporary art gallery located on the East Bank of the L.A. River at 649 South Anderson Street, underneath the 6th Street bridge. 

ABOUT THE GALLERY

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EMILY MAST • The Stage is a Cage

RAÚL DE NIEVES • I’m in A Story

JIBADE-KHALIL HUFFMAN • The Discrepancies

DRAKE LABRY • Decorative Family Room Paintings

A SERIES OF FILM SCREENINGS AND LIVE PERFORMANCES • Regional, International, & Extraterrestrial

MANUEL SCANO LARRAZÀBAL • Inexorable Acephalous Magnificence or How the Shit Hits the Fan

MARTY SCHNAPF • The Night Brightens

LINDA FRANKE • Access to Nameless Hazards

MICHAEL ALVAREZ • Sorealism

MARWA ABDUL-RAHMAN • Open That Shit Wide Let Me See How Big Your Mouth Is

GALIA LINN and ELENA STONAKER • Rituals of Sphinx and Lamassu

VIJAT MOHINDRA • Always Believe That Something Wonderful is About to Happen

TATIANA ECHEVERRI FERNANDEZ • Bones and Bloodlines to Space

KRISTAN MARVELL • The Quiddity of Presence

LIPSCHUTZ & LIPSCHUTZ • Lipschutz or Lipschutz

ALEX SANCHEZ • I Keep Everything You Give Me

AUDREY HOPE • Remembering Not Remembering

ERIC LEISER • Time Crystals

JOSH PAUL THOMAS • Reintentions

KRISTOPHER RAOS • Blocked Out

LAURA SOTO • Flesh and Flood

MARK SO • Heliogabalus: Anarchy

DRAKE LABRY • Decorative Family Room Paintings


Press Release

DECORATIVE FAMILY ROOM PAINTINGS • An Exhibition by DRAKE LABRY • JUNE 13TH – JULY 25TH, 2015


Museum as Retail Space (MaRS) is pleased to present Decorative Family Room Paintings, the first extensive solo exhibition of Drake LaBry in Los Angeles.

Decorative Family Room Paintings presents an overview of his "phenomena paintings", utilizing bulk-purchased glitter, hand-cut aluminum, salvaged cardboard, and air-cured polyurethane, to compose sensuous geometric patterns with complex (in)organic textures. The work delimits itself, by a praxis of directly translating stimulation for the sake of stimulation, as pure ornamentation.




Biography


DRAKE LABRY (b. 1985  Bayou Teche, Louisiana) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. His studio practice focuses on large-scale painting produced intuitively, with an emphasis on chromatic relativity, typically integrating salvaged and base-consumer materials with formal oil and water-based techniques. Patterns drawn from nature as well as contemporary society figure abstractly into his work.

HIs work has been displayed at the Marjorie Barrick Museum (Las Vegas, NV), Martine Chaisson Gallery (New Orleans, LA), and is in the permanent collection of the LSU Foundation (Baton Rouge, LA) and the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation (Los Angeles, CA).June 13th – July 25th, 2015


exhibition images


My Little Pony
2015

Polyurethane, Oil, Metal and Glitter on wood

108(h) x 72(w) inches
Ninja Turtles
2015

Polyurethane, Oil, Metal and Glitter on wood

108(h) x 72(w) inches
Marlin
2015

Glitter, Acrylic and Spackle on Stuffed Marlin

28 (h) x 103 (w) inches
What Seems So Close But So Far
2014

Polyurethane, Oil and Foil on Wood

73 ¾ (h) x 48 (w) inches
Bronze Fish 
(right)
2012

Polyurethane and Oil on Wood

36(h) x 34.5(w) inches
Clown Fish
2012

Polyurethane and Oil on Wood

48(h) x 41(w) inches
Sopping Wet
2013

Cardboard, Polyurethane and Oil on Acrylic Panel

65 ½ (h) x 52 (w)  inches


Selected Works