Jimmy Baker b. 1980 STUDIO IN CINCINNATI, OH Availing himself of very new and very old technologies, Jimmy Baker makes works brimming with color and texture. He paints with a full range of hues and gestures, creating thick surface layers from his paint. Then, running the canvases through a digital printer, he adds sprayed images over the painted surfaces. The resulting works can
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SEP 13 2014 – JAN 19 2015
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The Journey
The ultimate road trip, to a thousand destinations, for one unforgettable exhibition. In 2013, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art’s curatorial team hit the road to investigate what’s happening in American art today. Over the course of a year, the team logged more than 100,000 miles, crisscrossing the United States to visit nearly 1,000 artists.
Traveling to communities large and small, the Museum sought to discover artists whose work has not yet been fully recognized on a national level. On their travels, museum curators conducted hundreds of hours of one-on-one conversations with artists in their studios.
The Exhibition
The result of this unprecedented journey is a one-of-a-kind exhibition that draws from every region of the US, offering an unusually diverse look at American art. State of the Art brings together the artwork of more than 100 artists, ranging from works on canvas and paper to photography and video to installation and performance art, and more. The exhibition examines the ways in which today’s artists are informed by the past, innovating with materials old and new, and engaging deeply with issues relevant to our times.
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Art
Jimmy Kuehnle b. 1979 STUDIO IN CLEVELAND, OH Jimmy Kuehnle’s art rarely consists of static objects to be contemplated in a gallery setting. For Kuehnle, art resides not in the thing, but in the encounter. In his work, that encounter is often disruptive, colorful, and lots of fun. Consider his project Amphibious Inflatable Suit, a site-specific
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Jimmy Kuehnle – Meet the AIS Jimmy Kuehnle introduces us to the world of his whimsical, participatory artwork, the Amphibious Inflatable Suit.
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Joel S. Allen b. 1960 STUDIO IN STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, CO At once alien and earthy, synthetic and organic, Joel S. Allen’s hand-woven hanging sculptures call out to you: “Come closer.” From afar, their sinuous lines and bulbous forms resemble shaggy beehives suspended in space. Gathered in a cluster, they invite you to walk among them, to
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John Douglas Powers b. 1978 STUDIO IN KNOXVILLE, TN Creaking and swaying back and forth like a noisy field of tall grass, John Douglas Powers’s sculptural installation Ialu overwhelms the senses. Each individual steel reed connects to a wooden support, which moves with the aid of a motorized drive shaft. The rhythmic wave of the
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John Riepenhoff b. 1982 STUDIO IN MILWAUKEE, WI As an artist, John Riepenhoff deploys the resources and talents he has developed in his many other roles: curator, gallery owner, and art advocate. His miniature exhibition space, The John Riepenhoff Experience, provides a platform for other artists to show their work within the context of Riepenhoff’s own
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John Salvest b. 1955 STUDIO IN JONESBORO, AR From afar, John Salvest’s wall-bound sculpture Forever appears to be a single unit, its title spelled out in tall red letters against a speckled field of white. A step closer reveals the material: thousands of secondhand romance novels meticulously arranged with their spines facing toward you. Come
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Jonathan Monaghan b. 1986 STUDIO IN WASHINGTON, DC Jonathan Monaghan’s vibrant animated videos meld a range of sources to conjure their unsettling beauty. Borrowing from the look and feel of video games, the artist deploys historical and contemporary icons—from art history, design, and the commercial realm—in a mash-up of symbols of wealth in Western culture.
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Jonathan Schipper b. 1973 STUDIO IN BBROOKLYN, NY On first encounter, Jonathan ’s installation Slow Room feels uncannily familiar. Perhaps that old couch looks just like your grandma’s, or your mom has that same framed print. But this is no ordinary living room. Each component—every decoration, plant, and lamp—affixes to a cable leading to a hole
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Jonathan Schipper – Slow Room in Motion A time-lapse video documenting the movement of Jonathan Schipper’s installation Slow Room, from the exhibition’s opening to now.
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Julie Blackmon b. 1966 STUDIO IN SPRINGFIELD, MO The eldest of nine children as well as the mother of three, Julie Blackmon regularly uses her family as models for her carefully choreographed and staged images, creating fantasies in which they each play a part. Her scenes often appear familiar initially, but upon closer inspection convey a
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Justin Favela b. 1986 STUDIO IN LAS VEGAS, NV Drawing from the material culture of his Chicano background, Justin Favela creates sculpture that questions the line between art and everyday life. In his large-scale work Lowrider Piñata, the artist recreates a 1964 Chevrolet Impala—a classic icon of lowrider culture—in the familiar materials of piñatas: multicolored tissue
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Kedgar Volta b. 1983 STUDIO IN JACKSONVILLE, FL Moving five years ago from his native Cuba to Jacksonville, Kedgar Volta was struck by the uninhabited spaces in American city centers. He noticed that urban cores are often abandoned after workday hours end, and apartment dwellers rarely know even their nearest neighbors. Volta created this interactive
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Kelsey Brookes b. 1978 STUDIO IN SAN DIEGO, CA Kelsey Brookes’s paintings bring to mind the bright colors and pulsating graphics of the psychedelic culture of the 1960s, and for good reason. The works refer to a group of psychedelic compounds—including LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline—that share similar molecular structures to that of serotonin, the chemical in
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Kelsey Brookes – A Biochemist Becomes an Artist Kelsey Brookes shares how he transitioned from biochemistry to painting.
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Kim Cadmus Owens b. 1969 STUDIO IN DALLAS, TX In her brightly colored, dynamically composed paintings, Kim Cadmus Owens creates images of the city interrupted by blurs, blips, and sweeping lines. Owens takes inspiration from the digital anomalies that clutter our everyday visual experience, such as computer screen glitches and frozen iPhone interfaces. Her paintings
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Kim Dickey b. 1964 STUDIO IN BOULDER, CO When seen in an outdoor setting, Kim Dickey’s Mille-fleur suggests a garden wall overgrown with glorious flowering plants. The image resolves from its broad grid of painted and glazed ceramic forms, each a stylized flower or quatrefoil. The floral design is inspired by a sixteenth-century tapestry. Those weavings
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Kirk Crippens b. 1971 STUDIO IN EMERYVILLE, CA For photographer Kirk Crippens, the widespread national recession and subsequent bankruptcy of Stockton, CA stimulated a desire to capture an image of something that’s largely intangible. This question resulted in multiple projects, including Foreclosure, USA. In this particular project, Crippens documents the physical manifestation of the financial
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“The ability of democratizing the arts… making it available to more people, and giving people a chance to develop their own talents, will be one of the most important strategies we can pursue to build a future we can all share and live with.”—President Bill Clinton Since the opening of State of the Art
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New Orleans artist Dave Greber creates mesmerizing, eye-boggling video works. The two works presented in State of the Art illustrate the very different styles his practice encompasses, yet the two works—Sinew-en-ciel, an installation on the gallery wall, the other, Stilllives II: Vignette, projected on the floor—complement one another with their use of color and movement
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Talking with Detroit-based artist Hamilton Poe is something of a circular… or perhaps spiral … process. He trails off, comes back around, picks up with something he’d said earlier… it’s conversation in three dimensions. Part of this non-linear style is due to his ADD, which he classifies as “pretty severe,” but another, and I think
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