Jan Gatewood / Alas! Mocktales to Infinity
November 13 - January 1, 2021
SMART OBJECTS
1828 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA
1828 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA
Drawing can either...
A: Generate form
B: Register personal emotion
C: Both A & B are correct and the question is constantly recurring
Walk around cruelty and find the funny in it...Oops, upside your head and underneath the bridge
Come into our world and the whole forest will converse... Trust our DUST
Produce, Reduce, Reuse.
Dust is the scattered remains of all we’ve seen.
Ok, stop. What’s happening is a meditation on selected pins in the brain. The nucleus is collage. Now,
fuse the formal restrictions and the result is the harmonious contradiction embodied.
fuse the formal restrictions and the result is the harmonious contradiction embodied.
The beginning was the end... join the mythocracy
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Jan Gatewood (b. 1994, Aurora, CO) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Gatewood’s visual practice
focuses on the intersections of drawing, painting, and collage. He often uses humor and immediacy as
a point of departure for colliding seemingly disparate images, objects, and materials. Always interested
in having multiple conversations simultaneously, his work exists on a shifting scale ranging from one
liners to harmonious contradictions. Gatewood’s oeuvre has been featured in Whitewall and Amadeus
Magazine. Recent exhibitions include Insect Gallery, Los Angeles, Pt. 2., Los Angeles, Real Pain Fine
Arts, Los Angeles, and The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
a point of departure for colliding seemingly disparate images, objects, and materials. Always interested
in having multiple conversations simultaneously, his work exists on a shifting scale ranging from one
liners to harmonious contradictions. Gatewood’s oeuvre has been featured in Whitewall and Amadeus
Magazine. Recent exhibitions include Insect Gallery, Los Angeles, Pt. 2., Los Angeles, Real Pain Fine
Arts, Los Angeles, and The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA.