5 February, 2008—Track 16 Gallery is pleased to announce FIVE concurrent exhibitions: JeffEry: BLINKY THE FRIENDLY HEN 30TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION; JAMES GOODWIN: NOSTALGIC SUBTERFUGE; LAURIE HASSOLD: SUPERNATURE; MARJAN HORMOZI: VICE SQUAD; DAVE SHULMAN: EXHIBIT DAVE; and SCOTTY VERA: EAT THIS. The exhibitions will be on view from March 8 through April 5, 2008 with opening receptions on Saturday, March 8 from 6 to 9 P.M. Regular gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11 A.M. to 6 P.M.

Exhibit Dave is a mix of text, artwork and artifacts generated from Dave Shulman’s columns in L.A. Weekly (Sitegeist and Column Dave), which ran from 1998 until 2007 and included stories on involuntary cheerleading, Lime Barty, mustaches, death, Polynesian butt plugs, coffee, vandalism, head transplants, prostate biopsies, gorilla suits, prenatal capitalism, mudball fights, pancakes, Erik Cheeseburger, high school, tri-tip, cancer, Buffarona, insanity, car-living, decent God-fearin’ family life, more death, more cancer, neo-Nazi typing instructors (and their hats), quote Michelle unquote, Hector Schechner, Jim Chicken, Chlamydia Pines, Lyle Cramby and similar topics. 

The installation will include stories, drawings, photographs, paintings, illustrations, found objects, ephemera, reliquiae, artifacts and pushpins. Dave Shulman received a BA in Fine Art from UCLA in 1985 and studied briefly thereafter at CalArts.