The Fabric Workshop and Museum (FWM) is pleased to present Jonathan Lyndon Chase: Big Wash, on view from January 5 through June 6, 2021. The exhibition is the artist’s first solo museum exhibition and will feature new work created during their 2019-2020 screenprinting residency at FWM.
Jonathan Lyndon Chase is a Philadelphia-based visual artist whose works—drawings, paintings, sculpture, video and sound—focus primarily on Black, queer domestic intimacy. The artist was invited to work with the FWM Studio in the museum’s renowned screenprinting facilities to conceptualize and produce an original design. Chase employed this newly-created yardage as canvases on which to make a new suite of paintings, as well as soft sculpture and clothing.
For Big Wash, Chase turns their attention to the laundromat as a site that is at once private and public. With newly created paintings, drawings, and video, they continue their signature ability to move seamlessly between history and fantasy, as well as interior and exterior, with vivid depictions of eroticism, domesticity, queerness, nostalgia, and tenderness. Chase’s vibrant textile design punctuates the exhibition and acts as a stand-in for Black queer bodies navigating both the rawness of the urban landscape and intimacy of domestic settings.
“In addition to championing an emerging and prescient voice in our own community, as well as the contemporary art landscape in general,” shares FWM Curator Karen Patterson, “Big Wash links back to FWM’s roots: the process of screenprinting, and the role it has long played in influencing an artist’s practice.”
Media Preview
A virtual media preview of Jonathan Lyndon Chase: Big Wash will be held on Thursday, November 19 from 11:00am – 12:00pm ET. Following an introduction by FWM Executive Director Christina Vassallo, the preview will feature a tour and Q+A with the artist and Karen Patterson, FWM Curator. Space is limited. To request access to the virtual preview, please email David Simantov at david@bluemedium.com.
About Jonathan Lyndon Chase
Jonathan Lyndon Chase (b. 1989, Philadelphia) received their MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in 2016. Recently chosen as a 2019 Fellow by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, the artist is represented by Company Gallery in New York and their work has also been featured in recent solo exhibitions at Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York; and Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles. Recent group exhibitions include Personal, Private, Public at Hauser & Wirth and Embodiment at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York; Tell Me Your Story at Kunsthal KAdE, The Netherlands; and Disembodiment at UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles.
Chase’s work can be found in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; The Rubell Family Collection Contemporary Arts Foundation and Institute of Contemporary Arts, Miami, FL; Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Palm Beach, FL; High Art Museum, Atlanta, GA; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. Their work has been featured in The New York Times, T Magazine, Artforum, GQ, Artnet News, The Brooklyn Rail, and Hyperallergic, among others. wild wild Wild West & Haunting of the Seahorse, the artist’s second book, was published with Capricious in 2020. Their debut book, Quiet Storm, was released in conjunction with Company Gallery in 2018. Chase currently lives and works in Philadelphia.
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