PORTALS by Jake Joseph
Sometimes we find ourselves in desperate situations and resort to that theory where you throw everything at the wall and see what sticks. This year, we started off desperately ready for change - and threw everything at the wall. However, it feels like everything stuck. So now, not only are we left in the same position of confusion and indecision, we made a giant mess that is staring at us all in the face in just about every area of life in the USA.
With the traditional spooky season approaching in a year that has been - well - a permanent spooky season, we are mostly petrified about what uncertainties are on their way. However, it isn't all one great unknown and Shit Art Club is excited about one thing that we know is coming.
This Saturday, on Halloween, we are opening our dear friend Jake Joseph’s first ever solo exhibition, PORTALS. The show features works in his signature graphic bold style and dark themes that will undoubtedly strike you with fear at first glance. Each piece is a vignette that illustrates and tells a story about the balance of darkness and life that lives on both sides of the coin - reality and imagination.
PORTALS was created this year during time spent painting in Joseph’s home studio, studio in Downtown Los Angeles, and during a month long residency at 1700 Naud. Throughout the fairly regular start to the new year, the quarantine, then through periods of social unrest and political animosity, Jake Joseph has been internalizing all of this very real dose of life that feels imaginary and translating his thoughts and feelings about all of this into this series.
Come see the BEASTMAN’S solo show this upcoming month at Shit Art Club.
See the digital walkthrough of portals below:
PORTALS
by Jake Joseph
at Shit Art Club
October 31, 2020 - November 28, 2020.