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Please join us for the opening of
"Victor Houteff: At the Eleventh Hour"
An exhibition of painting drawn from the collection of Jim Shaw
Thursday, August 20, 7-9pm
Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn, NY

Exhibition on view August 20-September 16, Tuesday-Saturday 12-6pm 

A Bulgarian immigrant to the United States, Victor Houteff was running a hotel in the midwest when, in 1918, he attended a tent meeting of a Seventh-day Adventist group. He joined the church, and in the late 1920S began teaching doctrines that eventually resulted in his expulsion from the Seventh-day Adventist church in Los Angeles, where he had relocated. Despite his ousting, Houteff continued to preach his message. He and his followers, now known as the "Shepherd's Rod Seventh-day Adventists," finally moved to Mount Carmel, Texas, on the outskirts of Waco, where the group changed its name to the "Davidian Seventh-day Adventists." After Houteff's death in 1955, numerous factions broke off- the largest was led by Benjamin Roden, who named his congregation the "Branch Davidians." In 1983, Vernon Wayne Howell, later to change his name to David Koresh, joined the Branch Davidians.

Los Angeles artist Jim Shaw came across Houteff's paintings in 1994 at the Pasadena City College Flea Market.  

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