Jonathan Lyndon Chase

Last updated

Jonathan Lyndon Chase (born 1989, Philadelphia, PA) is an American visual artist. [1] Chase's paintings and drawings focus primarily on queer black bodies in mundane, everyday spaces. [2] Chase lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [3]

Contents

Early life and education

Chase was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1989. [4]

Chase graduated from University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2013 and went on to receive a Master in Fine Arts at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2016. [5]

Work

Chase's practice is a process of traditional and digital collage, drawing, photography, poetry, archiving, and research. [6]

Chases's figurative paintings stand stylistically beside peers Louis Fratino, Nicole Eisenman, and Carroll Dunham, and equally reference the erotic woodblock prints of Ukiyo-e. [7] Artist and curator Tiona Nekkia McClodden writes of Chase's paintings, "The figures mirror each other, touch each other … reach through each other. They are layered, they are tender and have a necessary roughness. Lovemaking, or rather loving oneself is like this. There is the way he allows a reversed negative x-ray transparency to look through certain parts of the body." [8]

Art critic Holland Cotter notes of the exhibition, "Quiet Storm” — which refers to a genre of mellow, primarily African-American pop music — there is nothing the least quiet about Mr. Chase's exuberant brushwork, or his images of glittered-splashed flesh and gay coupledom." [9] Writer Miss Rosen says of Chase, "Imagine the love child of Missy Elliott and Romare Bearden, raised by Ren & Stimpy, and embracing the intimacies of James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room … and you can begin to grasp the intricate complexities and exquisite nuances of African-American artist Jonathan Lyndon Chase."

Chase notes artists Romare Bearden, Alison Saar, Marlon Riggs, Robert Colescott, Alice Neel, and Kerry James Marshall as key inspirations as well as culture and fashion from the 1980s and 1990s, Afrofuturism, and science-fiction in relationship to black and queer narratives. [6]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

Bibliography

Talks

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Charles Alston</span> American artist (1907–1977)

Charles Henry Alston was an American painter, sculptor, illustrator, muralist and teacher who lived and worked in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem. Alston was active in the Harlem Renaissance; Alston was the first African-American supervisor for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Alston designed and painted murals at the Harlem Hospital and the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Building. In 1990, Alston's bust of Martin Luther King Jr. became the first image of an African American displayed at the White House.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Romare Bearden</span> American artist, author, and songwriter (1911–1988)

Romare Bearden was an American artist, author, and songwriter. He worked with many types of media including cartoons, oils, and collages. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Bearden grew up in New York City and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from New York University in 1935.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Horace Pippin</span> American painter (1888–1946)

Horace Pippin was an American painter who painted a range of themes, including scenes inspired by his service in World War I, landscapes, portraits, and biblical subjects. Some of his best-known works address the U.S.'s history of slavery and racial segregation. He was the first Black artist to be the subject of a monograph, Selden Rodman's Horace Pippin, A Negro Painter in America (1947), and The New York Times eulogized him as the "most important Negro painter" in American history. He is buried at Chestnut Grove Cemetery Annex in West Goshen Township, Pennsylvania. A Pennsylvania State historical Marker at 327 Gay Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania, identifies his home at the time of his death and commemorates his accomplishments.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts</span> Museum and art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is a museum and private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1805 and is the first and oldest art museum and art school in the United States.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">African-American art</span> Visual arts of the people of African descent in the United States of America

African-American art is a broad term describing visual art created by African Americans. The range of art they have created, and are continuing to create, over more than two centuries is as varied as the artists themselves. Some have drawn on cultural traditions in Africa, and other parts of the world where the Black diaspora is found, for inspiration. Others have found inspiration in traditional African-American plastic art forms, including basket weaving, pottery, quilting, woodcarving and painting, all of which are sometimes classified as "handicrafts" or "folk art".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Robert Blackburn (artist)</span> African American visual artist (1920–2003)

Robert Hamilton Blackburn was an African-American artist, teacher, and master printmaker.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Beverly Buchanan</span> African-American artist

Beverly Buchanan was an African-American artist whose works include painting, sculpture, video, and land art. Buchanan is noted for her exploration of Southern vernacular architecture through her art.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Raymond Saunders (artist)</span> American artist (born 1934)

Raymond Saunders is an American artist known for his multimedia paintings which often have sociopolitical undertones, and which incorporate assemblage, drawing, collage and found text. Saunders is also recognized for his installation, sculpture, and curatorial work.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Norman Lewis (artist)</span> American painter, scholar, and teacher

Norman Wilfred Lewis was an American painter, scholar, and teacher. Lewis, who was African-American and of Bermudian descent, was associated with abstract expressionism, and used representational strategies to focus on black urban life and his community's struggles.

Merton Daniel Simpson was an American abstract expressionist painter and African and tribal art collector and dealer.

Betty Blayton was an American activist, advocate, artist, arts administrator and educator, and lecturer. As an artist, Blayton was an illustrator, painter, printmaker, and sculptor. She is best known for her works often described as "spiritual abstractions". Blayton was a founding member of the Studio Museum in Harlem and board secretary, co-founder and executive director of Harlem Children's Art Carnival (CAC), and a co-founder of Harlem Textile Works. She was also an advisor, consultant and board member to a variety of other arts and community-based service organizations and programs. Her abstract methods created a space for the viewer to insert themselves into the piece, allowing for self reflection, a central aspect of Blayton's work.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jayson Musson</span>

Jayson Scott Musson is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He was born in Bronx, NY.

Laylah Ali (born 1968) is an American contemporary visual artist. She is known for paintings in which ambiguous race relations are depicted with a graphic clarity and cartoon strip format. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and is a professor at Williams College.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ellen Powell Tiberino</span> American painter

Ellen Powell Tiberino (1937-1992) was an African American artist who was figurative and expressionist in her pastels, oils, pencil drawings and sculptures. Her works were infused with the experiences and history of Black people, women in particular, whom she most often painted in dark and haunting hues. She was a prolific artist, working against time as she battled cancer for the last 14 years of her life.

Joe Wesley Overstreet was an African-American painter from Mississippi who lived and worked in New York City for most of his career. In the 1950s and early 1960s he was associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement.

Louis Fratino is an American visual artist.

Nanette Carolyn Carter, born January 30, 1954, in Columbus, Ohio, is an African-American artist and college educator living and working in New York City, best known for her collages with paper, canvas and Mylar.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Frank Stewart (artist)</span> American photographer

Frank Stewart is an African-American photographer based in New York. He is best known for photographing prominent Jazz musicians.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cinque Gallery</span>

The Cinque Gallery (1969–2004) was co-founded by artists Romare Bearden, Ernest Crichlow, and Norman Lewis as an outgrowth of the Black power movement to "provide a place where the works of unknown, and neglected artists of talent …" — primarily Black artists — "would not only be shown but nurtured and developed". "Relying on a series of volunteers, Cinque hosted solo, group, and touring exhibitions," and sponsored an artist-in-residence program, which was inaugurated with collagist Nanette Carter.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Reginald Gammon (American artist)</span> American artist

Reginald Gammon (1921-2005) was an American artist and member of the African American artist's collective, Spiral.

References

  1. Dambrot, Shana Nys (2018-06-06). "Gay Black Artist Jonathan Lyndon Chase Makes His Mark in the L.A. Art World". L.A. Weekly. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
  2. "Jonathan Lyndon Chase · Company Gallery". Company Gallery. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
  3. "With Back-To-Back Sold-Out Shows, the 28-Year-Old Painter Jonathan Lyndon Chase Is a Young Artist to Watch". artnet News. 2018-06-29. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
  4. "Chase". Kohn Gallery. Retrieved 2018-10-20.[ permanent dead link ]
  5. "Chase". Kohn Gallery. Retrieved 2018-10-20.[ permanent dead link ]
  6. 1 2 "28-year old, Philadelphia-based artist Jonathan Lyndon Chase is everywhere this past year". Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
  7. "Jonathan Lyndon Chase: Sheets". The Brooklyn Rail. 11 July 2018. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
  8. "Quiet Storm · Company Gallery". Company Gallery. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
  9. Cotter, Holland (26 April 2018). "10 Galleries to Visit Now on the Lower East Side". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-10-20.