Exhibition catalogue from Larry Johnson at the Belkin (25 October—14 December 1996) with texts by Scott Watson, Laurence A. Rickels and Gary Indiana. The first one-person museum exhibition of Los Angeles artist Larry Johnson, the exhibition includes three bodies of work dating from 1988 to 1995 that present a broad spectrum of Johnson’s art and documents the juxtapositions within, and the development of, his unique and provocative point of view. Johnson’s work is a hybrid of photography, text, animation, graphic design and painting. His works investigate American language by zeroing in on the bizarre epiphanies and cruel despair of a new consciousness created by the totalization of consumer culture. The work is beautiful and polemical. Johnson’s work offers a caustic view of American reality from a queer perspective.