Jonathan Lyndon Chase’s “gathering on 5th street” (2020) in the exhibition “Wind Rider,” the artist’s New York solo debut. Credit… Jonathan Lyndon Chase and Company Gallery.
I’m a child of ranchers. Because of how misshapen and reactionary mythic cowboy culture is in America, I’m a fool for painting that introduces what Roberta Smith terms the “subversive theme of the gay black cowboy.”
And as usual, Ms. Smith illumines her subject (for me) with her incisive descriptions of technique.
All motifs benefit from ingenious combinations of strident drawing and suave stained color; they are often simultaneously transparent and opaque, explicit and mysterious.
(“4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now,” NYTimes, 11-11-20)
I live in Texas and devote much of my time to easel painting on an amateur basis. I stream a lot of music, mostly jazz, throughout the day. I like to read and memorize poetry.
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‘Explicit and Mysterious’
I’m a child of ranchers. Because of how misshapen and reactionary mythic cowboy culture is in America, I’m a fool for painting that introduces what Roberta Smith terms the “subversive theme of the gay black cowboy.”
And as usual, Ms. Smith illumines her subject (for me) with her incisive descriptions of technique.
All motifs benefit from ingenious combinations of strident drawing and suave stained color; they are often simultaneously transparent and opaque, explicit and mysterious.
(“4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now,” NYTimes, 11-11-20)
(c) 2020 JMN
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I live in Texas and devote much of my time to easel painting on an amateur basis. I stream a lot of music, mostly jazz, throughout the day. I like to read and memorize poetry.