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Manifest Destiny / Gold Rush series and addressed the impulse to move West, ambition and the economy. For this three-month period, one month was dedicated to a show of California artists on Entrepreneurialism, the second staged a functioning Hotel for east coast artists to come work west and the third presented a solo installation by artist David Hendren depicting a post-earthquake interior. The fourth Public Fiction series was held at the
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reinvented "Al’s Grand Hotel", a project initially created by
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did the poster for the series. The fifth series, was called "Theatricality and Sets" where for three months Public
Fiction hosted an exhibition of artist using props, creating sets or staging a theater. The publication for this issue was called "The Lost Issue" and made jointly with
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