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# A Feminist’s Cutting Critiques of Consumerism at Charlie James Gallery
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/a-feminists-cutting-critiques-of-consumerism-at-charlie-james-gallery/
- Published: 2017-04-05T22:52:29.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:27:33.000Z
- Description: Opening this Saturday, Nancy Buchanan's solo show Consumption explores that word's contemporary relevance through photography, collage, and video.
- Author: Matt Stromberg
- Tags: Art, Charlie James Gallery, Events, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:23 (2016, 2017, part 2)

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Nancy Buchanan, “Time Standing Still” (2014), collage on paper, 29 x 32 inches (image courtesy the artist and Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles. Photo: Michael Underwood)

Early on in her career, [Nancy Buchanan](http://nancybuchanan.net/?ref=hyperallergic.com) established herself as an influential participant in the feminist art movement of the 1970s in Los Angeles, as well as being a founding member of several important artist groups including F Space Gallery, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), and the Women’s Building. Her early work was heavily performance-based, but her oeuvre has come to encompass video, installation, sculpture, drawing, and photography.

Buchanan’s first solo show with Charlie James Gallery, [*Consumption*](http://www.cjamesgallery.com/show-detail/consumption?ref=hyperallergic.com), explores that word’s contemporary relevance, meaning both “to use up” and “to acquire,” through four bodies of work. *It’s About Time* (2014–17)features collages of high-end watch advertisements, highlighting current obsessions with time, status, and luxury. The photographs of bakery confections in *50 Shades of Cake* (2013–14) are rendered in sickening shades of gray, layering gustatory appeal and revulsion. These two new series are augmented with earlier works: *After California* (1999–2017) examines the state’s historic natural landscapes and their recent suburbanization, and two collaborations (1998–2002)with Carolyn Potter, miniature installations incorporating video, depict typical American interiors littered with objects — the end result of unfettered consumption.

**When:** Opens Saturday, April 8, 6–9pm  
**Where:** Charlie James Gallery (969 Chung King Road, Chinatown, Los Angeles)

*More info* [*here*](http://www.cjamesgallery.com/show-detail/consumption?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*