Joyceland
Lisson Gallery
When I was a teenager I done a couple of creative things, including being in a band - “al most fin ish”- and doing some arty things on the visual arts fork - damn autocorrect -, such as combining photography and painting: drawing lines of colour over black and white photos of naked people (you can go and see the final result at a local restaurant near my parents’ home place). Anyway, moving on to the spicy things. Now that I’m at Joyceland, at Lisson Gallery, one of the first things that occurs to me is to paint (drippings) a metal “thing” that we used back in the old days to weight dead pigs. After we have killed him, and before doing the sausage, we use to weight the dead pig on the side of the house main gate so all the village will knew it. And used this “thing” to weight the beast. Good old days! I painted it together with a metal chandelier and a … with golden, purple, silver and green colours. Somewhere in between, I’ve also painted a couple of naked female bodies with my sweat, swear and seamen. Tonight, the only thing that I’m “painting” are these words on my iPhone. Life, back then, was much much more accessible. I simply didn’t care about conventions and norms, and lived it as I took it. Joyce Pensato, or Joyceland, as she calls her world, is a clear example of an artist that is totally about affect. People are wrong when they go and look for meaning (Afro-american and racism, Mickey Mouse an sexuality, etc.) when her work is about sensation. They are layers ad layers of sensation, not meaning. Those are a secondary outcome, results from a personal expression. She's sharing!
«Joyce Pensato paints exuberant, explosive large-scale likenesses of cartoon characters and comic-book heroes. Her seemingly frenzied technique – actually involving the deliberate accretion of successive layers of bold linear gestures, rapid spattering and frequent erasures – results in alternately humorous and sinister imagery. While her prima facie subject matter ranges from Batman, The Simpsons and Mickey Mouse to Felix the Cat and Elmo from Sesame Street, her artistic progenitors include Alberto Giacometti, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Abstract Expressionists such as Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline and Philip Guston.» [...MORE...]
«Joyce Pensato was born in Brooklyn, New York, where she continues to live and work. Her touring solo show, I Killed Kenny, first shown at the Santa Monica Museum of Art (2013) is now travelling to the Contemporary Art Museum of St Louis (24 January-13 April 2014). Solo exhibitions include Santa Monica Museum of Art (2013); Petzel Gallery (2012, 2008, 2007) Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago (2012) and Galerie Anne de Villepoix (2010, 2000, 1998). Recent group exhibitions include Empire State, curated by Alex Gartenfeld and Sir Norman Rosenthal at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (2013); Interior Visions: Selections from the Collection by Alex Katz at the Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville (2012); A Painting Show at The Speed Museum of Art, Louisville (2011) and The Darker Side of Playland: Childhood Imagery from the Logan Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2000). Pensato’s work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; SFMoMA, San Francisco; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Dallas Museum of Art; St Louis Art Museum and the FRAC des Pays de la Loire. She has won numerous awards including the Robert de Niro, Sr. Prize (2013), the Award of Merit Medal for Painting, given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2012), the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award (1997) and the Guggenheim Fellowship (1996).»
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