JASON RHOADES
1965-2006, United StatesCommon to Jason Rhoades’s multifarious output is an underlying interest in the conditions in which art is made and the subversion of any conventions that stand in the way of its production. Up to his untimely death in 2006 at age 41, Rhoades carried out a continuous assault on aesthetic conventions and the rules governing the art world: these conditions, in fact, were used as materials or tools for his work. His conceptual vigor and his attempts to redefine and expand the space in which works are both made and exhibited earned him a reputation as an artists’ artist. Believing that the creative process demanded ultimate freedom, his work could be dangerous, overwhelming, politically incorrect, obnoxious, or sublime.
In 1993, Rhoades received his M.F.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles.
In 2013, Jason Rhoades, Four Roads marked the first American museum exhibition of the artist’s work, organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. Traveling internationally, the exhibition is currently hosted by the Kunsthalle Bremen in Germany (through January 4, 2015), followed by the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, England.
Source: David Zwirner
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