{"id":1913,"date":"2009-08-09T10:57:17","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T17:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/08\/ruschas-frey-showing-at-albright-knox\/"},"modified":"2009-08-09T11:01:51","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T18:01:51","slug":"ruschas-frey-showing-at-albright-knox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/09\/ruschas-frey-showing-at-albright-knox\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruscha’s Frey Showing At Albright-Knox"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Buffalo News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u2018Wall Rockets\u2019 at Albright-Knox celebrates artist Ed Ruscha<\/h1>\n

By Colin Dabkowski<\/p>\n

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It was the dead of winter in 2006, and James Frey was in a bad way.<\/p>\n

His best-selling memoir, \u201cA Million Little Pieces,\u201d had recently come under fire in the national media for factual inaccuracies. He had just appeared on \u201cThe Oprah Winfrey Show\u201d to defend his work, and Oprah, once a fervent Frey supporter, had torn the author into a billion little shreds.<\/p>\n

It seemed that everywhere Frey looked \u2013on blogs and talk shows, in newspapers and magazines \u2013someone was gleefully waiting to vilify him.<\/p>\n

Others of lesser conviction might have fled to the hills of New Hampshire or Vermont to become J. D. Salinger-esque recluses, never to set foot in the public spotlight again. But Frey was never much for convention. In his time of need, instead of seeking refuge in alcohol or drugs or even therapy, the embattled author turned to the art of Ed Ruscha.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve had odd professional experiences,\u201d Frey said on a recent visit to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. And after the odd professional experience that was Frey\u2019s messy evisceration on \u201cOprah,\u201d Frey\u2019s French publisher called to console him after what she called his \u201cpublic stoning.\u201d The phrase stuck in Frey\u2019s mind.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen all that stuff was happening, I don\u2019t know why, I was like, \u2018I\u2019ve got to get Ed Ruscha to paint me a picture that says \u2018Public Stoning,\u2019\u201d Frey said.<\/p>\n

The painting Frey commissioned from Ruscha now hangs in the Albright-Knox as part of \u201cWall Rockets,\u201d a sprawling tribute exhibition inspired by the work of the legendary California artist. It runs through Oct. 25.<\/p>\n

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