"Battery was Steven Bankhead's 2008 exhibition at Circus Gallery and comprised a series of medium-size charcoal renderings of collaged material that the artist had culled from billboards, posters, flyers, stickers, T-shirts, graffiti, and other ephemera. Much of the imagery was lifted from the rock milieu and testified to rock's ongoing recycling of a lexicon of mythical symbols originating in avant-garde art (as described by cultural critics such as Stewart Home and Greil Marcus). A sense of historical unfolding was suggested in the emphatic numbering of the drawings on view: twenty-four in all, arranged into four groups of six, each work bearing its date of production as title (Sept. 18, Sept. 19, Sept. 20...).."

-S.L. 07/12/2024