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Email PageSeasons of Change
June 21, 2008- July 26, 2008
Reception: June 21, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Jeremy Fish
Joshua Liner Gallery
548 W 28th St Jeremy Fish Burning the Late Night Candles of Spring (2008) |  Jeremy Fish The Balding Trees of Autumn (2008) |  Jeremy Fish Take Shelter from the Winter (2008) |
 Jeremy Fish Carefree Memories of Youth Gone By (2008) |
“Somewhere between full-blown, howling death and a basket of newborn kittens exists a climate where malice and mirth can mingle,” writes hip-hop artist Aesop Rock about the work of his friend and sometime collaborator, Jeremy Fish. By fusing the cuddly and the macabre, Fish creates a unique urban folklore replete with grinning skulls, body parts, and hat-wearing worms, all carefully depicted with a clean, voluptuous line. The artist pulls inspiration from a grab bag of folk and pop-culture sources, including Balinese fairy tales, Goth jewelry, children’s book illustration, tattoo and biker culture, Mexican muertos, tramp art and other craft traditions. Across all is an exaggerated depiction of innocence and its loss.
Seasons Of Change features drawings, paintings, and sculpture that tell a personal tale of physical and emotional transformation. Through quirky symbolism, Fish builds a coded narrative that is both grim and gentle. The four seasons are evoked to represent the phases of life, as well as motivations and moods (i.e., seasonal depression, “spring fever”). Objects, animals, architecture, and the human body merge into dynamic hybrids. In works with hand-carved frames, for example, painted images of human hearts sprout wings, worms, personalized cityscapes, plumbing, and umbrellas, all superimposed on a silkscreened ribcage and ringed in carved skulls—it’s a “dance of death” viewed through the lens of Richard Scarry or Dr. Seuss. The beautifully carved frames and sculpture were created in Indonesia from Fish’s designs by the Balinese artist Nyoman Sedayatana.
Jeremy Fish is a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute. Solo shows of his work have taken place at Space 1026, Philadelphia (2006); White Walls Gallery, San Francisco (2007); BeCool’s Undercool exhibition space in Rome (2007); and FIFTY24SF Gallery, which has published two books of Fish’s work, I’m With Stupid (2005) and Once Upon A Time (2008). The artist has been featured in group exhibitions, including Modart ISPO, Munich (2004); BEAMS, Tokyo (2004); WORDLESS, the Swiss Urban Art Show, Zurich (2005); Low Tech High Life, Art Prostitute Gallery, Dallas (2006); and Bestial, Iguapop Gallery, Barcelona (2007). Fish’s SuperFishal brand includes T-shirt and skateboard designs.
Co-founder of Lineage Gallery in Philadelphia, Joshua Liner opened Joshua Liner Gallery in New York City’s Chelsea gallery district in April 2008 with the inaugural group exhibition Locked & Loaded. Gallery artists include Jeremy Fish, Blaine Fontana, Robert Hardgrave, Josh Keyes, Koralie, Kris Kuksi, Pat Rocha, Greg Simkins, and Damon Soule.
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