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DUGOUT (1999–2006)
DUGOUT (1999–2006)
Dugout (1999-2006) amassed the familial stories Allen was told by his father, a retired major league baseball player, and his mother, a piano player. In addition to select drawings and excerpts of the radio play from that series, the exhibition includes the large wall construction Ancient (2000-01) – a staged tableau of objects and images lyrically arranged like a tangible memory.
Dugout: Chapter 1, 1993 (radio play)
Ancient, 2000–2001
multi-media
97 x 96 x 78 ¼ in. (246.4 x 243.8 x 198.7 cm)
“Dugout is a made-up world, constructed and based on the true stories and lies I heard and experienced as a boy growing up in the flat sprawl of Texas. It is about baseball and music and a man and woman who play them across the endless idea of America during the late 19th-century and the first half of the 20th-century. It is about the unexpected arrival and continuing shock of their teenage ‘kid’ (WARBOY)—not to mention his own shock. Dugout is a love story; an investigation into how memory is invented… a kind of Supernatural-Jazz-Sport-History-Ghost-Blood-Fiction.”
—Terry Allen
“Dugout is a made-up world, constructed and based on the true stories and lies I heard and experienced as a boy growing up in the flat sprawl of Texas. It is about baseball and music and a man and woman who play them across the endless idea of America during the late 19th-century and the first half of the 20th-century. It is about the unexpected arrival and continuing shock of their teenage ‘kid’ (WARBOY)—not to mention his own shock. Dugout is a love story; an investigation into how memory is invented… a kind of Supernatural-Jazz-Sport-History-Ghost-Blood-Fiction.”
—Terry Allen
“Dugout is a made-up world, constructed and based on the true stories and lies I heard and experienced as a boy growing up in the flat sprawl of Texas. It is about baseball and music and a man and woman who play them across the endless idea of America during the late 19th-century and the first half of the 20th-century. It is about the unexpected arrival and continuing shock of their teenage ‘kid’ (WARBOY)—not to mention his own shock. Dugout is a love story; an investigation into how memory is invented… a kind of Supernatural-Jazz-Sport-History-Ghost-Blood-Fiction.”
—Terry Allen
Dugout I, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, 2004
For Blood, 2001
gouache & ink
30 ½ x 22 ½ in (77.5 x 57.1 cm)
Full Swing, 2001
pastel & ink
30 ½ x 22 ½ in (77.5 x 57.1 cm)
Dugout II (Hold on to the House), Santa Monica Museum of Art,
Santa Monica, CA, 2004
Kings of the Wild Frontier: Crazy Caril (Dugout II), 2004,
mixed media on paper,
22 ½ x 30 ½ in. (57 x 77.5 cm)
Kings of the Wild Frontier: Warboy Puppet (Dugout II), 2004, mixed media on paper,
30 ½ x 22 ½ in. (77.5 x 57 cm)
Jo Harvey Allen performing in Dugout III Warboy (and the backboard blues), REDCAT, Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater,
Los Angeles, CA, 2005
45 N Venice Blvd.
Venice, CA 90291
Gallery hours
Tues – Sat: 10am – 6pm
Terry Allen: The Exact Moment it Happens in the West
26 June – 28 September 2019
Terry Allen: The Exact Moment it Happens in the West 26 June – 28 September 2019
Terry Allen: The Exact Moment it Happens in the West 26 June – 28 September 2019
Terry Allen: The Exact Moment it Happens in the West 26 June – 28 September 2019
