Jordan Adams: Art Practice

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Star Destroyer

Self Portrait

MAN ON MARS

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Machine-Being/The Price Is RIGHT

Machine:
1.an apparatus consisting of interrelated parts with separate functions, used in the performance of some kind of work.

Being:

1.the fact of existing

2.conscious, mortal existence; life

3.substance or nature

4.a living thing

5.a human being; person

6.(initial capital letter)God.

Adulterated-Form

Adulterate:
to debase or make impure by adding inferior materials or elements; use cheaper, inferior, or less desirable goods in the production of (any professedly genuine article): to adulterate food.

Form:
the structure, pattern, organization, or essential nature of anything.

Totalities

Today I read the catalogue of artist Chris Johanson's 2008 exhibition "Totalities." CHECK IT OUT. What work ethic. He must have shown 100 paintings. The world/fantasy/utopia which the work suggests is so palpable you can taste it. I dislike however the mythology surrounding this artist. It's overemphasized that he is self-taught, that he dislikes fame, and that his work despite its abstract quality is the result of direct observation. To propagate the artist as primitive, counter-cultural bohemian is bullshit. It is to suggest that the artist's fantasy; his world-making is a artifact of delusion; a entertaining product of fetish, and not the result of a conscious exploration of the possible.