Jason Rhoades
Subtitle: four roads
By: Ingrid Schaffner ; with contributions by Martha Buskirk, Chris Kraus, and Paul Schimmel
Contributors: University of Pennsylvania. Institute of Contemporary Art; Kunsthalle Bremen; Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9783791352923; 9783791364698
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Installations (Art); Exhibitions
Description: "This volume examines the remarkable legacy of Jason Rhoades's complex body of work. The Los Angeles-based sculptor Jason Rhoades was widely celebrated for sprawling, ambitious, and daring installations, editions, and events prior to his untimely death in 2006. Although he was far better known in Europe than America, many of Rhoades's peers considered him to be one of the most important artists of his generation. In his work, cultural touchstones ranged from high to low, including the artists Marcel Duchamp, Donald Judd, and Paul McCarthy, race-car driver Ayrton Senna, actor Kevin Costner, the big bang, Swedish erotica, and the California gold rush. This volume, accompanying the first US survey of his works, centers on four highly sensory, large-scale pieces that incorporate neon, radio, smoke rings, and even a model train into large environments that engulf the viewer. These four canonical installations are navigated via five critical essays that help unify Rhoades's labyrinthine, often-overwhelming methods into the single overarching project he envisioned. The book also features illustrations of each major work dating from 1991 to 2006, accompanied by explanatory texts that illuminate Rhoades's materials and methods as both highly accessible and artistically complex"--

"This volume examines the remarkable legacy of Jason Rhoades's complex body of work"--
Notes: "Organized by Ingrid Schaffner, Chief Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Exhibition itinerary: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, September 18-December 29, 2013; Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany, September 17, 2014-January 4, 2015; Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom, 20 February-31 May, 2015."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-191).
Table of contents: title: REVVING UP / Ingrid Schaffner; title: FOUR ROADS / texts by Ingrid Schaffner; title: JASON RHOADES, AMERICAN ARTIST: Garage Renovation New York (CHERRY Makita), 1993 ; SYSTEMS: The Creation Myth, 1998 ; JASON THE MASON: Sutter's Mill, 2000 ; TABOO: Untitled (from My Madinah: In pursuit of my ermitage...), 2004; title: ROADS BEYOND; title: JASON RHOADES, AMERICAN ARTIST / Chris Kraus; title: STUDIO SYSTEM / Martha Buskirk; title: JASON THE MASON: THE MAKING OF A CALIFORNIA ARTIST / Paul Schimmel; title: MAJOR ROADS.