Reported by Katherine Sweetman<\/strong><\/p>\n Press Release<\/strong><\/p>\n ‘Good Grief’ Opening reception Friday, June 22, 2012 (6-10PM) Free, and open to the public! We\u2019re very excited to announce Good Grief, an exhibition in celebration of Double Break\u2019s one-year anniversary! On this momentous occasion, artist-owners Matt Coors and Louis M Schmidt will show their own work, including new drawings, prints, publications and more. Both recent MFA graduates of UCSD\u2019s acclaimed Visual Arts Department, Coors and Schmidt share interests in the machinations and narratives of history, in pattern (and pattern disruption) as design and metaphor, in all things curious and mind-blowing, and lastly, in linguistic sword fighting, i.e. pun wars.<\/p>\n Good Grief quotes the famous, exasperated utterance of Charlie Brown, Charles Schultz\u2019s character from his comic strip The Peanuts, created in 1950. Easily one of the most iconic post-war comic characters in American history, Charlie Brown is much more than the archetypal born loser. He is \u201cfailure\u201d with a capital F, a sort of anti-hero set against the myth of the \u201cself-made\u201d individual, who issues a constant wake-up call to all those lost in the fog of the American dream. The flip side of that half-century old narrative is a character who weathers the storms of a disappointing existence, sometimes gracefully\u2014most times clumsily\u2014but always in a way that brings relief to his audience. That being said, however, if there\u2019s anything that Coors and Schmidt both love, it\u2019s wordplay, and Good Grief evokes a particularly pleasing dichotomy. Paired together, \u201cGood\u201d and \u201cgrief\u201d suggest both exasperation, and the enjoyment of grief, and as such, the cycle of grief. Compounded by the allusion to Charlie Brown as American anti-hero, \u201cgood grief\u201d suggests cycles of failure, patterns of discord and unhappiness in perpetuity. The works in this exhibition embody a myriad of sentiments, from the stoic and memorial to the whimsical and awestruck- come see for yourself!<\/p>\n From the artists:<\/p>\n Matt Coors: \u201cA lot of my recent work is a meditation on the human need to organize things in order to cope with or pretend to comprehend the vastness and complexity of the universe, the world, our history, our surroundings, and our uncertain future. I am often interested in exploring the similarities and differences between the acts of articulating the world and summing it up, and the feelings that can be conveyed through either of these strategies.\u201d<\/p>\n Louis M Schmidt: \u201cWhat he said.\u201d<\/p>\n Double Break<\/p>\n 1821 5th Ave<\/p>\n San Diego, CA 92101<\/p>\n 619.238.2325<\/p>\n info@doublebreakstore.com New Exhibit at Double Break Gallery Tweet Reported by Katherine Sweetman Press Release ‘Good Grief’ New Work by Matt Coors and Louis M Schmidt at Double Break Opening reception Friday, June 22, 2012 (6-10PM) Exhibition runs through Saturday, July 21, 2012 Free, and open to the public! 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