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SKYLAR FEIN

Junk Shot

October 11 – November 19, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN You Don't Have to Be Stoned But It Wouldn't Hurt, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
You Don't Have to Be Stoned But It Wouldn't Hurt, 2011
vinyl ink floor mat
​48 x 72 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Total Abuse/Sex Pig No. 1, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Total Abuse/Sex Pig No. 1, 2011
acrylic, screenprint and mixed media on card
​19 x 10 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Total Abuse/Sex Pig No. 2, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Total Abuse/Sex Pig No. 2, 2011
acrylic, screenprint and mixed media on card
​20.5 x 14.5 inches

SKYLAR FEIN White People, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
White People, 2011
acrylic and mixed media on card
​25 x 17 inches

SKYLAR FEIN The Buildup, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
The Buildup, 2011
mixed media on card
​15 x 23 inches

SKYLAR FEIN The Dunes, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
The Dunes, 2011
acrylic transfer and plaster on cardboard
​12 x 12.5 inches

SKYLAR FEIN This is Our Entire Program, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
This is Our Entire Program, 2011
acrylic, screenprint and mixed media on card
​25 x 37 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Study for Kyle at Universal Music Group (Lil Wayne), 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Study for Kyle at Universal Music Group (Lil Wayne), 2011
screenprint and mixed media on card
​23 x 22 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Suprematism: It's a Huge Misconception that the Industry is Doing Badly, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Suprematism: It's a Huge Misconception that the Industry is Doing Badly, 2011
acrylic and mixed media on card
​39 x 27 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Plan for Large-Scale Museum Installation, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Plan for Large-Scale Museum Installation, 2011
acrylic, screenprint and mixed media on card
​14 x 17 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Pussy, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Pussy, 2011
acrylic on card
​23 x 18 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Reds Keep Moving!, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Reds Keep Moving!, 2011
acrylic and mixed media on card
​31 x 21 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Plan for Large-Scale Installation: Split Swastika, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Plan for Large-Scale Installation: Split Swastika, 2011
acrylic and mixed media on card
​10 x 28 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Obscene Sunrise, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Obscene Sunrise, 2011
acrylic, graphite and mixed media on card
​15 x 11 inches

SKYLAR FEIN New Mechanical Language for Political Commentary, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
New Mechanical Language for Political Commentary, 2011
acrylic, ink and mixed media on card
​30 x 23 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Milan, Born in the Golden Rectangle, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Milan, Born in the Golden Rectangle, 2011
acrylic and mixed media on card
​24 x 20 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Learn Computer Programming (Sex Pig), 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Learn Computer Programming (Sex Pig), 2011
acrylic, graphite and mixed media on card
​10 x 11.5 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Girl is Insanely Happy, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Girl is Insanely Happy, 2011
mixed media on wood
​27.5 x 18.5 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Scorpio Rising, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Scorpio Rising, 2011
mixed media on wood
​30 x 20 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Karl Lagerfeld Helmut Lang Fendi, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Karl Lagerfeld Helmut Lang Fendi, 2011
mixed media on card
​16.5 x 49 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Gehry's Architecture is the New Brutalism, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Gehry's Architecture is the New Brutalism, 2011
inkjet on card
​17 x 17 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Gehry's Architecture is the New Brutalism (Red Stripe), 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Gehry's Architecture is the New Brutalism (Red Stripe), 2011
acrylic and mixed media on paper and canvas
​25 x 28 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Gang Bang, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Gang Bang, 2011
mixed media on card
​41 x 25 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Fine, Be That Way, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Fine, Be That Way, 2011
acrylic, graphite and mixed media on card
​12 x 48 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Don't Fuck With the Baldies, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Don't Fuck With the Baldies, 2011
mixed media on wood
​34.5 x 24 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Dior, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Dior, 2011
acrylic and mixed media on card
​28 x 15 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Desert Event (Outside Marfa), 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Desert Event (Outside Marfa), 2011
acrylic and mixed media on card
​39 x 27 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Death (Sweatshirt), 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Death (Sweatshirt), 2011
mixed media on wood
​25.5 x 23.5 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Crisis in Art, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Crisis in Art, 2011
inkjet on paper
​16 x 16 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Comprehension About Dimension, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Comprehension About Dimension, 2011
acrylic and mixed media on card
​13.5 x 23 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Bloody Riot, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Bloody Riot, 2011
acrylic and mixed media on card
​12 x 12 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Bataille's Bathing Suits, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Bataille's Bathing Suits, 2011
acrylic and mixed media on card
​14 x 16 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Aspen, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Aspen, 2011
mixed media on card
​16 x 21 inches

SKYLAR FEIN And Then What Happened?, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
And Then What Happened?, 2011
mixed media and acrylic transfer on cardboard
​12 x 15 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Alison's Combat Boots, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Alison's Combat Boots, 2011
mixed media on wood
​23 x 17 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Ah, Menschen, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Ah, Menschen, 2011
acrylic and mixed media on watercolor paper
​20 x 22 inches

SKYLAR FEIN A Reductivist Portrait of Death, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
A Reductivist Portrait of Death, 2011
acrylic and screenprint on paper
​61 x 53 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Toff (Leather Jacket), 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Toff (Leather Jacket), 2011
mixed media on wood
​24 x 17 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Hustlers (Vest), 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Hustlers (Vest), 2011
mixed media on wood
​24 x 17 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Be Taller/Be Everything/Be [triptych], 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Be Taller/Be Everything/Be [triptych], 2011
acrylic and mixed media on card
​20 x 12 inches per unit

SKYLAR FEIN What's On Your Mind?, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
What's On Your Mind?, 2011
mixed media on wood
25 x 18 inches

SKYLAR FEIN United States Postage (For Pinot-Gallizio), 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
United States Postage (For Pinot-Gallizio), 2011
acrylic and mixed media on card
​29 x 39 inches

SKYLAR FEIN The Greeter, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
The Greeter, 2011
mixed media
​44 x 42.5 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Penny, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Penny, 2011
mixed media on wood
​43 x 24 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Let's Talk Man to Man About Beautiful Women, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Let's Talk Man to Man About Beautiful Women, 2011
acrylic and mixed media on card
​14 x 23.25 inches

SKYLAR FEIN GE, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
GE, 2011
acrylic, screenprint and mixed media on card
​48 x 30 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Devil's Tower Study No. 1, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Devil's Tower Study No. 1, 2011
acrylic and mixed media on card
​36 x 24 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Cutting Loose, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Cutting Loose, 2011
mixed media
​69 x 41 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Crisis in Art (Probably a Penile Geyser), 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Crisis in Art (Probably a Penile Geyser), 2011
acrylic and mixed media on card
​37 x 25 inches

SKYLAR FEIN Car Trip, 2011

SKYLAR FEIN
Car Trip, 2011
acrylic and mixed media on card
​35 x 14 inches

PRESS RELEASE ::: SKYLAR FEIN --- 'Junk Shot'

September 21, 2011 (New Orleans, LA) JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY is proud to announce the upcoming exhibition Junk Shot, new works by artist SKYLAR FEIN. The exhibition will open on Saturday, October 1, 6-9 pm, in conjunction with the annual city-wide Art For Arts' Sake, the official opening of the arts season.

Skylar Fein's career has been on an upward trajectory since his first solo show in 2008, followed by his installation at Prospect.1 Biennial, a solo exhibition at New Orleans Museum of Art, appearances at VOLTA NY and PULSE Miami, a major installation in Chelsea and a group show at Ballroom Marfa.

 

About Junk Shot

Junk Shot reveals a decisive turn toward formalism, while extending the graphic innovation that has marked his earlier work. Fein's 70+ new pieces include stark figurative painting, geometric abstraction and Constructivist-flavored assemblage, as well as small aluminum sculptures.

The exhibition has so many ideas per square inch that it could be the result of a cage wrestling match staged by philosophers. The pieces make arguments concerning architecture, nuclear testing, horse racing, cocaine, war, the links between Futurism and fascism, masculinity, and the erotic philosophy of Georges Bataille -- and that's just for a start. Taken together the new work shows a sensibility that is intellectual, intimate, formally rigorous, occasionally obscene, and defiantly contemporary. The new work blends the sensibilities of proto-minimalism -- from Constructivism to Suprematism to early Motherwell -- with the graphic power of Pop. It's fresh new work that somehow harks back to the beginning of Modernism but is very much made for our current moment.

Skylar Fein was the recipient of a 2009 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award and his work is in several prominent collections, including The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, The Louisiana State Museum, The Birmingham Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art and collectors Beth Rudin DeWoody, Lance Armstrong, and Lawrence Benenson (MoMA).

 

Skylar Fein lives and works in New Orleans, LA.

In the wreckage of post-Katrina New Orleans, SKYLAR FEIN found his calling as an artist, experimenting with color and composition using the detritus the hurricane left behind. His work soon became known for its pop sensibility as well as its hard-nosed politics. His first solo show, "The Skylar Fein Show," in May 2008 at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery sold out; he followed that up with "Remember the Upstairs Lounge," his Prospect.1 biennial installation. That show shined a spotlight on an overlooked piece of New Orleans history: a fire that swept through a French Quarter bar in 1973, killing everyone inside and sparking the gay rights movement in New Orleans. His installation walked visitors right through the swinging bar doors, and offered visual riffs on politics and sexuality circa 1973. The piece was praised in Artforum, Art In America, The New York Times Magazine, and The New Yorker, among others.

In late 2009, Fein had his first solo museum show, "Youth Manifesto," at the New Orleans Museum of Art. The exhibition was an ode to punk rock as a force for social and cultural upheaval. True to form, the opening reception was shut down by police responding to the look of the unlikely art-going crowd. A solo installation at VOLTA NY followed by PULSE Miami; further solidified Fein's presence on the national scene.

In 2010, the curatorial project No Longer Empty had Fein recreate his "Remember the Upstairs Lounge" installation in a vacant Chelsea space. The exhibition once again drew thousands of visitors and sparked further interest in his work. In 2011, Fein was featured in two major exhibitions, at Ballroom Marfa and at the new C24 Gallery in Chelsea.