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Stars to Speak
Jordan Sullivan

Stars to Speak

, 2022
  • Material
    Coloured pencil on vintage paper
  • Edition Size
    1
  • Measurement
    9 x 12 inches
    22,86 x 30,48 cm
    Unique
  • Details about the frame
    Handmade black stained and waxed maple wood frame, incl. spacer bar and museum glass. Outer dimensions 39.7 x 32.6 cm, with hanging on the back.
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About the artwork

Voyage in the Dark", "Love and other Wounds", "Stars to Speak" - the very titles of Jordan Sullivan's unique coloured pencil works testify to the artist's narrative talent. The picture stories are deeply rooted in his homeland, the USA, which here necessarily includes stars and stripes, diner and Harley Davidson. Behind "California's Young Pill Poppers" Sullivan lets the arrested Charles Manson appear. And is that Dennis Hopper from "Easy Rider" whom the artist quotes next to boxing world champion Jack Dempsey with the sentence "I will never apologise"? The skyscraper by the sea, the Hotel Traymore, also actually existed in Atlantic City. But Jordan Sullivan's works are much more than a puzzle of set pieces of US cultural history. The lost, the addicted, the dodgy are the focus here. Sullivan meets them with empathy. "There's a violence in almost everyone / and a beauty in absolutely everything," reads one of his poems. The American dream can no longer be had without its flip side. Escapism is out of the question for Jordan Sullivan. Looking at the present, one can only conclude: quite rightly. Nevertheless, he has a vision of the future ready. For "When man has fled and is no longer there... the stars start to speak". A bittersweet glimmer of hope.

About the artist

The American artist Joan Jonas is a pioneer of video and performance art. In the late '60s and early '70s she fundamentally contributed to the vocabulary of these art forms. Narration is at the center of her installations – a mix of projections, videos, drawings, sounds and objects. Jonas finds inspiration in literature and theatre. The traditional Japanese Noh theater in particular plays a role in her work. In addition, Jonas takes up rituals that she got to know during her numerous international travels. The artist was born Joan Amerman Edwards in 1936 in New York City, where she still lives and works today - in addition to her second location in Nova Scotia, Canada. Her work is widely recognized around the world. She has taken part in six Documenta exhibitions in Kassel since 1972 and has been a guest at the Venice Biennale twice. In 2018, the Tate Modern in London showed one of her largest solo exhibitions to date, which is currently being continued in the Haus der Kunst in Munich.

Latest Exhibitions (Selection)

Booze Bullshit & Buttfucking: Jordan Sullivan, MRKT Gallery, San Francisco, 2023
An Island In The Moon, Ampersand Gallery, Portland, OR, January, 2015
Death Valley, Photo LA - Ampersand Gallery, 2015
The Young Earth, Peter Hay Halpert, NY, NY, 2015
A World, Printed Matter Art Book Fair at MOCA, Photo Installation for Secret Behavior, Los Angeles, CA, Jan/Feb, 2014
Sometime, Somewhere, The Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, March, 2013 (two-person exhibition)
Natural History, Underline Gallery, New York, NY, May/June, 2012 (solo exhibition)
A Room Forever, NowIDeA Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, March, 2012 (solo exhibition)
Roadsongs, Clic Gallery, New York, NY, April/May, 2012 (solo exhibition)
The Ghost Country, Clic Gallery, New York, NY, January, 2012 (solo exhibition)
A Temporary Place, Peel Gallery, Houston, TX, June/July, 2011 (two-person exhibition)
Tell Them Anyway, Ampersand Gallery, Portland, OR, March/April, 2014 (four person show)
Philadelphia Photo Arts Center Book Fair, IPL Library, March 2014
The Natural Collection, University of Hertforshire, England, March, 2014
Binding Image, Tetterode, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Feb., 2014
Petty Thieves, Petzworth Reading Room/Furthermore Gallery (Fotoweek DC), Washington DC, November, 2013
Secret Behavior, Berl's, Brooklyn, NY, September, 2013
A Different Kind of Order, ICP Triennial, International Center for Photography (Reading Room /Artist Book Installation), New York, New York, Summer, 2013
A Fair, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, January/February, 2013
White Space, Family Dynamics Benefit Auction, New York, New York, May 2013
Indie Photobook Library, Flash Forward Festival, June, 2012
Binding Image, MuzyQ, Amsterdam, Netherlands, November/December, 2012
The Wild & The Innocent, Clic Gallery, New York, NY, March/April, 2012
Mythologies, Rivington Design House, New York, NY, March, 2012
Indie Photobook Library, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, April 2011
ATTN: LIBRARY, Kosmos Lane Gallery, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, November, 2011
Summer Time, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY, June/July, 2011
Self Publish, Be Happy, Travelling Exhibition, 2011 {exhibitions at Photomonth Krakow, PhotoIreland Dublin, and Flash Forward Festival Boston}
Ofr. Galerie, Paris, February, 2010 {four person show}
Secrets, Space 15 Twenty, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Skye Parrott, October, 2010

Links of Interest (Selection)

Website of the artist
Jordan Sullivan on artsy
Jordan Sullivan on DAZED Magazine

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