EXITING THE VEHICLE | JUST DO IT - a serigraph by Richard Duardo 1997 - AP1232

On June 7-10, 2018,  a very moving show was held at the These Days Gallery in Los Angeles in honor of a single print of this extraordinary work. It was the only piece exhibited. The following is an excerpt from their page explaining its significance: "Over the course of three days in March of 1997 thirty-nine members of the Heaven’s Gate community exited their vehicles with the help of phenobarbital-saturated applesauce and pudding in a rented home in Rancho Santa Fe California. The following month Los Angeles artist Richard Duardo curated the exhibition “Applesauce and Pudding” at downtown LA’s now defunct Art and Commerce Gallery, about the Heaven’s Gate incident. Duardo, along with several designers, recreated the scene of the group’s “graduation,” their “classroom” and a series of prints taken from a police photo. The image is of an “Away Team” member’s exited shell, their torso covered with a purple fabric, revealing only their legs clad in black sweat pants and their feet in a pa