JPW3
11 Apr - 02 May 2015
JPW3
Come inside your Mind
11 April 2015 — 2 May 2015
John Patrick Walsh 3 alias JPW3, born in 1981, comes from a most interesting circle of artists, writers and curators, who studied together in Chicago in the mid 2000s. Since the city, apart from some institutions, doesn’t offer a rich field of art, artists usually leave to Los Angeles or to New York. To finish his studies JPW3 went to the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where, surrounded by other artists, such as Sayre Gomez, and curator Marc LeBlanc, he developed his significant artistic practice.
Grounded in ideas about combustion, heat, sound, and speed, his materials work between fluid and solid states moving slow and fast. JPW3’s wax- and aluminum works as well as his sculptures are neither connected to the the recent hype of fetishized abstract gestures nor to the techno post-internet generation and their sticking to a kind of permanent present. His work in form and content instead finds itself on one timeline with the recent history of the American Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism and its current varieties.
Wax is an ancient and slow material, in heated condition it flows and mimics other materials. As motifs JPW3 has newspapers printed black and white with photographed objects and patterns. Attached to the canvas, soaked with colored wax, heavily dyed in some parts, oxidized like toxic paintings or marked with aluminum color these works carry with them all the markings of its creation, sometimes even referencing the tools used in creating the work it self.
His motifs often originate in the world of the duality of the recording studio/garage. a type of mechanic/artist/inventor/wanderer he references keys, engines, rims, tuning forks and in particular, Ferrari. Cars belong to the American narrative of freedom, independence and living the dream. As racing cars they are capable of creating borderline out of body experiences such as trance drifting at top speed speed. Drifting can be understood as a mystic experience of transcendence, in relation to the human body, these moments of acceleration or centrifugal- and gravitational force can feel as if time is standing still.
Come inside your Mind
11 April 2015 — 2 May 2015
John Patrick Walsh 3 alias JPW3, born in 1981, comes from a most interesting circle of artists, writers and curators, who studied together in Chicago in the mid 2000s. Since the city, apart from some institutions, doesn’t offer a rich field of art, artists usually leave to Los Angeles or to New York. To finish his studies JPW3 went to the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where, surrounded by other artists, such as Sayre Gomez, and curator Marc LeBlanc, he developed his significant artistic practice.
Grounded in ideas about combustion, heat, sound, and speed, his materials work between fluid and solid states moving slow and fast. JPW3’s wax- and aluminum works as well as his sculptures are neither connected to the the recent hype of fetishized abstract gestures nor to the techno post-internet generation and their sticking to a kind of permanent present. His work in form and content instead finds itself on one timeline with the recent history of the American Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism and its current varieties.
Wax is an ancient and slow material, in heated condition it flows and mimics other materials. As motifs JPW3 has newspapers printed black and white with photographed objects and patterns. Attached to the canvas, soaked with colored wax, heavily dyed in some parts, oxidized like toxic paintings or marked with aluminum color these works carry with them all the markings of its creation, sometimes even referencing the tools used in creating the work it self.
His motifs often originate in the world of the duality of the recording studio/garage. a type of mechanic/artist/inventor/wanderer he references keys, engines, rims, tuning forks and in particular, Ferrari. Cars belong to the American narrative of freedom, independence and living the dream. As racing cars they are capable of creating borderline out of body experiences such as trance drifting at top speed speed. Drifting can be understood as a mystic experience of transcendence, in relation to the human body, these moments of acceleration or centrifugal- and gravitational force can feel as if time is standing still.