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Anat Ebgi is pleased to present A Guide to Benefits, the first Los Angeles solo show of New York-based artist Martin Basher. Expanding upon the lineage of display-based artistic practices, Basher鈥檚 work taps consumer psychology, sublimated desire and masculine gaze. The title of the exhibition refers to credit card protections, customer loyalty programs and the masochistic intimacy of encounters between associates, clients, friends and partners.

For his solo exhibition, Basher will present a series of paintings and collages featuring his signature motif of flawless oil-painted gradated stripes, along with a site specific sculpture made from plexiglass, aluminum, chrome and everyday consumer goods. Marking a new development in the work, A Guide to Benefits brings photo-real renderings of legs and liquor glasses into the paintings and collages, making an explicit link between the paintings and the retail forms that constitute his sculpture. The objects and images resonate with the emotional undercurrents of consumerism. The consumer鈥檚 appetite is insatiable; customer loyalty is only as good as its dopamine kick. In this context, Basher鈥檚 work wryly locates the sublime on the shop floor and gallery wall in equal measure.