LOS ANGELES, CA.- TELIC in collaboration with The Center for Integrated Media at the California Institute for the Arts presents Davis & Davis, 1 Year Later, on view through May 20, 2005. 1 YEAR LATER is a new multi-media installation conflating Robert Frank's "Covered Car, Long Beach, CA," Johnny Cash and Men in Black.

The project evolved out of a parking shortage on the Los Angeles street where artist team, Denise and Scott Davis live. In trying to preserve a parking space to return home to each day, they came up with the idea of a collapsible covered car and for inspiration, turned to Robert Frank's 1956 photograph to create this decoy. Research into late 50's Cadillacs led to some of the iconic figures of the time: Men in Black, who drove them; then to Johnny Cash, who drove them, sang about them and was popularly known as the Man in Black.

For this bold installation, a one-to-one scale representation of Frank's photograph, Davis & Davis jump “one year later” in time to inhabit the scene with these characters. A 1957 model Cadillac decoy is parked and three Men in Black sit within literally undercover, but their logo, the all-seeing eye, is visible in the driver's side rear window. They are whispering along robotically to Cash's 1957 release, ”Cry, Cry, Cry” , the lyrics to which speak of surveillance, interrogation and threat, hallmarks of Cold War domestic intelligence operations.

This collage of time, space and representational mediums creates a filmic transformation of the original starting point, this 50's photographic scene, with an uncanny contemporary reflection.

Davis & Davis have collaborated on a variety of installation, video, sculpture, photography and net art projects over the last 14 years. Their interests include cinema, psychology, pop culture and fringe sciences. In addition to a recent solo show at the Heather Marx Gallery in San Francisco, Davis & Davis have exhibited at the Ulrich Museum of Art, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, the Downey Museum of Art and the Huntington Beach Art Center, among other venues. Their work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Ulrich Museum of Art, California State University Los Angeles, California State Polytechnic University Pomona, Cypress College and the Kinsey Research Institute, as well as many private collections. Their first book, "Childish Things," was published in August, 2004 by Santa Monica Press.