Patrick Gomez 4 Sheriff

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November 4th, 2015

For Immediate Release:

 

PATRICK GOMEZ 4 SHERIFF is Ecstatic to announce Jocko Weyland: Minwang 3rd Alley, a new exhibition of the artist’s paintings from his Beijing Walkers series.  The Gallery will host a reception for the artist on Sunday, November 8th at 3pm.  There will be an accompanying catalogue published by Golden Spike press available.  

Jocko Weyland is an artist known primarily as a photographer, writer, and long time publisher of ELK magazine, this exhibition will be the first to showcase his paintings.  Initially beginning as a series of photographs documenting his experience abroad, this body of romantic figurative paintings was developed over the last several years after leaving Beijing, where he lived and worked between 2007 and 2008.  Each painting cites a photograph as its source and uses the image as a loose guide for making this series.  The subject matter deals exclusively with these snapshots which were all taken on walks in the Beijing streets, and focus on a single person facing in the same direction as his lens.  Never confronting his subject face to face, these works vividly depict his feelings of isolation and melancholy; alone in a foreign city of 22 million people.  Theses paintings deliberately position themselves uncomfortably at the apex of representation and figuration, photography and painting - each informing the next, they take cues from one another, creating a bittersweet conversation about the nature of technology and its impact on collapsing artistic platforms.

 

Born in 1967 in Helsinki, Finland, Jocko Weyland is the author of The Answer is Never - A Skateboarder’s History of the World (Grove Press, 2002), The Powder and Danny’s Lot (Dashwood Books, 2011 and 2015), and the short story collection Eating Glass, forthcoming from 1980 Editions in Paris. He started the serial publication Elk in 2003, which spawned Elk books and the eponymous Elk Gallery, where he organized sixteen shows between 2006-11. In New York from 1991 to 2006 Weyland worked as an archivist for the Burns Archive, the Sygma Photo Agency, and The Associated Press Photo Library.  More recently he spent a winter as a lift operator at a ski area in Nevada, and prior to that lived in Beijing for two years teaching English and writing a bimonthly column called “Raw China” for Vice Magazine. He currently lives in Tucson, Arizona, where he is the chief curator at MOCA Tucson.  He has additionally curated exhibitions in New York, Beijing, and Los Angeles, “The Peripheterists” at Apex Art in New York in 2011, as well “Sonoran Hot Dog Stand” at the Fleisher/Ollman Gallery in Philadelphia in 2015. He has shown photographs, ballpoint pen drawings, and paintings at FakeSpace in Beijing, and Franklin Parrasch and Kerry Schuss in New York. Weyland is represented by Kerry Schuss Gallery.