Emerica & Slam City Skates present 'Drinking the Kool-Aid'

Emerica and Slam City Skates present Ed Templeton's latest work, 'Drinking the Kool-Aid' at London's Elms Lesters Painting Rooms.

Ed Templeton's exhibition at Elms Lesters Painting Rooms is a personal chronicle that serves as a mirror for a broader reflection on what it means to be human.

The show takes place from Tuesday 6th April until Saturday 17th April 2010.  Admission is free and open from Monday-Saturday, 12.00-18.00.

On Saturday 10th April Ed Templeton will be signing the following books at Elms Lesters from 12-2pm.

There's also a short interview with Templeton HERE.

Drinking the Kool-Aid
This booklet brings together a selection of Templeton’s work and is also entirely designed and edited by Templeton. The viewer engages with the booklet via numerous foldouts, posters, and trimmed pages. Templeton has essentially materialized his own flexibility and agility of mediums through the book format, creating an exceptionally original piece of work!

Published by: Mörel Books
www.morelbooks.com
NB. There will be a limited edition copy in a box set with a print available.

The Seconds Pass
An in depth look at Templeton's recent and ongoing series of photographs from a moving car. This body of work will be presented as a solo exhibition at the Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Culver City California, and also in his mid-career survey exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Gent, Belgium.

Published by: Seems
www.seemsbooks.com

Deformer
Ed Templeton explores his upbringing in suburban Orange County, California, through photographs, stories and ephemera from his youth and teen years, giving readers an intensely close and personal look at his coming of age. He weaves disciplinary letters from his grandfather and religious notes from his mother in with telling images and brutal stories, creating an unresolved narrative that offers more questions than answers. Or perhaps the answers are these photographs, paintings, drawings and sketchbook pages, which plunge readers headlong into not just Templeton’s chaotic existence but also his use of art to address its stresses and joys. Deformer is the culmination of a vision 11 years in the making, and collects over 30 years of material. Its photographs illuminate being young and alive in the suburban domestic incubator and provide a raw and unflinching glimpse into the artist’s own life and the lives around him.
Ed will be signing the regular version of the book but also the boxed limited edition version which includes a signed print.

Published by: Damiani
www.damianieditore.it