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JACQUELYN
JACKSON JOHNSTON
UPCOMING EXHIBITION
Visual
Experience as Commodity
“All That Glitters”
is a study of the visual experience as commodity. Most contemporary visual experiences
are commodified: admission to a museum, a pass to a park or zoo, a movie ticket,
advertisements and even the clothing we buy in order to create our own self-enveloping
visual experience. Then there are those visual experiences that are not just
commodities for the singular experience, but can be purchased as a whole, to
grant the consumer sole viewership, like the price of owning a work of art for
a privileged visual experience. By dividing the visual experience as commodity
into these two categories, I am intrigued by the various forms of visual demonstration
of ownership. I started to think about examples including the placement of a
name plaque with the owner's name who has lent a work of art to a museum and
the placement of the dollar bill on the body of the stripper.
From a painter's perspective, my paintings are always heavily informed by the
idea of demonstrating the painterly break down of color, reminiscent of the
way enlarged pixels break down images into blocks of individual color. The paintings
in this show have been a natural progression from my interest in revealing the
construction of paintings, as seen in my previous series of self-portraits,
combined with my growing interest in the cultural developments that lead a visual
experience to become a commodity.
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PAINTINGS
2005 Exhibition
2004 and before
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