"UNHOLY TRINITY FLY ATTACK" L.A. Outsider Artist LEMOINE REDMOND Photocopy PRINT

Description: This is "UNHOILY TRINITY FLY ATTACK" by Los Angeles Outsider Artist LEMOINE REDMOND Photocopy 11 x 17 PRINT The PHOTOS seen in the listing OF LEMOINE are FOR REFERENCE ONLY AND ARE NOT INCLUDED ACCORDING TO NEIGHBORS, THE LATE LEMOINE Redmond often stood in her Echo Park yard, topless and muttering, feeding dog food to tree frogs. She had hair on her chin and conspiracies on her mind. Toward the end of her life, she had only kerosene lamps for light and ate only peanut butter, even though two checks for $25,000 made out to her were found among her effects when she died several months ago, so alone that no one bothered to lock up her house when she was gone. Everyone knows this view of L.A.: the gray-green pastures of failure that extend out as far as one can see in all directions, indistinct landscapes of toil and isolation, vast regions of unspecialness. Sometimes it's where you're from, and it's always where you hope you aren't going, but fear you will end up. The mystery is by nature unresolved, and unresolvable. Like death, it's a condition you can never really know until you get there. Along with the usual detritus (50 years' worth of magazines), the more curious effects included a picture of Lemoine dressed as a '30s showgirl, and a raft of painstakingly executed costume designs from the same era, leading one to conclude that this had once been a life of promise and aspiration. Still, all this might have amounted to a passing curiosity, except for the presence of dozens and dozens of Redmond's oil paintings. These are executed in a distinctive, homespun style, of a quality level falling somewhere between thrift-store gems and the “Outsider Art” that became popular a few years ago, done by schizophrenics, autistic adults and other eccentric shut-ins, such as Henry Darger. There are landscapes, paintings of house cats, portraits of public figures from Queen Elizabeth to Ronald Reagan, a Virgin Mary holding a baby space alien, and a series of media personalities with rodentlike teeth and claws. The rough paintings are spectacular on their own, if only by sheer force of number, but in the context of the abandoned house, they provided a set of psychological clues along with the physical wreckage of a life. Together, these items formed the basis for a compelling, if ultimately irresolvable, “mystery.” How does a person go from bright, shiny showgirl to crazy lady standing in the yard topless feeding dog food to tree frogs? “She seemed to have all the advantages of beauty and talent, so why did it go so awry?” It's also a condition every artist secretly, or not so secretly, dreads: How fine is the line between talent and delusion, and how close am I to it? And worse — would I even know it if I slipped over to the other side? t's as an everywoman that Lemoine sings to us. But it would seem from the evidence that Lemoine Redmond, while attractive, was a far cry from star material — and how many young girls in the '40s had their pictures taken in showgirl attire? Isn't it the equivalent of today, let's just say, working the auto show in a bikini? And while her paintings have the spark of imagination, and are by all means wonderful objects, to think that she's an undiscovered artist would be going too far. Lemoine may have been a failed artist, but it's far more likely that she simply didn't have enough beauty or talent to make a go of it in any area of the arts. The fascination of Lemoine's existence ultimately lies in how mundane it all is; even at its most outrageous — the paintings, the peanut-butter jars, the bags of fresh dry cleaning, the personal documents — it all seems to somehow reflect the brutal, zany mediocrity of life in the interstices of Los Angeles. ----- Rear Window. Hillary Johnson. November 10, 1999 Original Art Show at 2337 VALLEY VIEW DRIVE: THE MYSTERY OF LEMOINE REDMOND The Lab 835 S. Spring St., downtown Through November 18 1999 FOR MORE INFO ON LEMOIE REDMOND GO TO HER "FACEBOOK PAGE" PHOTOCOPY is 11 x 17 in GOOD CONDITION - PLEASE SEE PICS Multiple SIMILAR PURCHASES can combine for ONE MAILING FEE.

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