Jon Pylypchuk
i have thought deep into this trouble
Installation view
Friedrich Petzel Gallery
2005
i have thought deep into this trouble
Installation view
Friedrich Petzel Gallery
2005
i have thought deep into this trouble
Installation view
Friedrich Petzel Gallery
2005
i have thought deep into this trouble
Installation view
Friedrich Petzel Gallery
2005
i have thought deep into this trouble
Installation view
Friedrich Petzel Gallery
2005
take it easy creeper
2005
Mixed media on paper
21.5 x 18 inches
at this point i am barely keeping it together
2005
Mixed media on paper
28 x 20 inches
just watching the world go down, got money fuckface
2005
Mixed media on paper
22 x 18 inches
i have said to much, you can't fix anything don't try, i have said to much, i will be fine blanketed in shit over here
2005
Mixed media on paper
22 x 18 inches
why are you trying to ply me with such shit
2005
Mixed media on paper
21.5 x 18 inches
stop treating me like a plastic fuck doll, kiss me
2005
Mixed media on paper
21 x 18 inches
a whole box of cigarettes and no mouth to smoke with
2005
Mixed media on paper
20 x 18 inches
Untitled (ping pong caddie 1-5)
2005
Mixed media
i'll make a home from your trouble
2005
Mixed media
36 x 18 x 40 inches
i will blow fire on all the oceans of the world
2005
Mixed media on panel
24 x 30 x 2 inches
i will stop fighting you when death stops fucking with me
2005
Mixed media
64 x 72 x 72 inches
cut the act you phony cripple-you try living with your legs bent up
2005
Mixed media
21 x 30 x 16 inches
one day i will have my life back and you will be quite sorry
2005
Mixed media on panel
48 x 78 x 2.25 inches
scrunches
2005
Mixed media
27 x 19 x 18 inches
scrunches
2005
Mixed media
27 x 19 x 18 inches
picking you on the dating game is second only to the indignity of being the picker on the dating game
2005
Mixed media
get up it's ten to nine motherfucker
2005
Mixed media on panel
72 x 96 x 2.5 inches
these are your last safe five seconds
2005
Mixed media
33 x 36 x 20 inches
and that's when i gave up trying to overcome the urge to simultaneously cry and puke
2005
Mixed media
45 x 74 x 74 inches
i have thought deep through this trouble
2005
Mixed media on panel
60 x 48 x 2 inches
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Curated by Andrea Teschke
Opening reception: Saturday, September 10, 6-8 pm
Friedrich Petzel Gallery is pleased to present "I have thought deep into this trouble", a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Jon Pylypchuk. The exhibition will be comprised of large-scale sculpture and painting.
Continuing to populate a sad sack universe of lovable losers, the artist has added feline characters to his menagerie. Composed in tableaus that deal with violence, illness and loss, his figures never descend into melancholia, but retain a wry humor that affirms life. In the past his anthropomorphized animals have suffered a multitude of mishaps- a litany of car crashes, manslaughter, falls from snowcapped mountains, war- but here they engage as pugilists. The centerpiece of the exhibition is a boxing ring, with both combatants wearing orange trunks. In Pylypchuk's vision, the referee has been transformed into a gravedigger, preparing an eternal resting place for the chump.
A second large-scale sculpture is of another cat, this time suffering from a head injury. The battered figure is slumped and eating a bowl of soup. The table on which the meal is propped is an abstract field encased in resin, containing detritus, shards and sparkles, which bridges the artist's three-dimensional works with painting.
This is Jon Pylypchuk's third solo exhibition at Friedrich Petzel Gallery. His work can also be seen in an upcoming solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland in January 2006.
"i have thought deep into this trouble" will be on view from September 10 – October 8, 2005, with an opening reception on Saturday, September 10, from 6-8 pm. The gallery is located at 535 West 22nd Street, New York, NY, 10011. For further information, please contact the gallery at info@petzel.com, or call (212) 680-9467.