Buoy | JJ PEET

JJ PEET’s work is not constrained by a single genre or inhibited by a single medium. He explores material and immaterial manifestations of power through drawings, videos, ceramics, sculptures and actions. The work he generates probes the thresholds between visual, tactile and covert operations via an ongoing narrative on the coded relationship between art and politics. By combining found objects with fastidious craftsmanship and political critique, he creates a highly charged and mythical aesthetic that directs viewers to tune into the liminal and subliminal information that surrounds them. Thus, his work remains decidedly egalitarian while also deploying rarified techniques, digital devices, and art-making traditions. With an intricate conceptual foundation that often involves collaborative, participatory, or strictly functional elements, my projects position art as a tool for intervening with the social systems that govern our lives.

To conclude the exhibition, August 12, PEET will present a screening of Psych_UP Animation, a 27-minute video projection. This work serves as an archive of every stop-motion image he has ever created, dating back to 2006. Strung together in a hallucinatory torrent, the video is a giddy collection of quick, idiosyncratic visions - from structures to scribbles - that plays like a visual stream of consciousness at breakneck speed.

JJ PEET earned an MFA from Yale University School of Art in 2006 and a BFA from the University of Minnesota in 1999. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Sculpture at Columbia University, and at Parsons The New School in New York City. In addition, he teaches ceramics at the 92nd Street Y. His work has been featured in Artforum, Art in America, Bomb, Frieze, Modern Painters, The New Yorker, and TimeOut, among numerous other publications. Some of his recent solo exhibitions include DOWNSTAIRS projects, Brooklyn, NY (2019), galerie quatre, Arles, France (2018), FRAC PACA, Marseille, France (2018), University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA (2017), Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA (2017), Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA (2016), Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL (2016), The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX (2015), and On Stellar Rays, New York, NY (2015, 2012, 2010, 2009). He previously presented work with David Petersen Gallery in 2016, in the exhibition Future Developments. This is his first solo exhibition with the gallery.

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