L.A. Louver is pleased to present the singular Terry Allen for the fifth editionof Frieze Los Angeles in a survey of the artist’s wildly multifarious, polymathicbody of work. Allen’s oeuvre sprawls across artistic modes ranging from visualart to performance to songwriting and beyond, masterfully wielding whichevermedium – drawing, sculpture, installation, album, poetry, print, video – he so…
L.A. Louver is pleased to present the singular Terry Allen for the fifth editionof Frieze Los Angeles in a survey of the artist’s wildly multifarious, polymathicbody of work. Allen’s oeuvre sprawls across artistic modes ranging from visualart to performance to songwriting and beyond, masterfully wielding whichevermedium – drawing, sculpture, installation, album, poetry, print, video – he sodesires. Continually shapeshifting and proliferating, Allen’s work eludes anydistillation, echoing the sensorial, emotional, and narrative complexities of reallife.
Born in 1946 and raised in Lubbock, …