Dylan Egon “American Holy Relics”

Jonathan LeVine Gallery

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Jonathan LeVine Gallery presents American Holy Relics, new works by Jersey City-based artist Dylan Egon in what will be his second solo exhibition at the gallery.

Through his work, Dylan Egon marries art and design with his appreciation for American culture and craftsmanship. American Holy Relics will include mixed media works on panel, ready-made sculptures, sound installations and functional art objects such as three skateboard deck editions and custom yardsticks that sheathe hidden swords. Additionally, the artist will release a print and vinyl figure based on Saint America, one of the paintings in the exhibition.

Many of Egon’s works on panel feature paper collage and cut brass plating, containing in some cases over three thousand hand driven nails. The depicted subjects vary widely, ranging from the wreckage of an iconic Porsche 550 Spyder resulting in the untimely death of James Dean to a triceratops skull. In Target Moon, a circular panel contains a full moon background layered in assemblage with elements of cut brass, collage, white butterflies, honeybees, matchsticks, pills, pencils, knives and other objects along with the phrase inter spem et metum—which translates from Latin to: between hope and fear.

One of the artist’s sculptures is a custom-built motorcycle inspired by a rare 1934 Harley Davidson speedway racer bike. Egon’s contemporary version is fully functional, brass-plated and fitted with holsters for both a gun and whiskey bottle. A stuffed crow sits perched on the handlebars and a brass-plated drone warplane escort hovers above.

Themes explored throughout the artist’s work include American values, biotechnology, conspicuous consumption and the shifting line between art and commerce. Repetition, numerology, currency and measuring instruments are recurring components as well as iconic pop-culture figures from fashion, film, music and political history.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Dylan Egon was born in 1966 in New York City and is currently based in Jersey City, NJ. He studied Anthropology and Archeology at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama and later studied Film at City Tech University in New York. Egon works in a variety of mediums (collage, assemblage, sculpture) and often uses objects from his vast personal collection as focal points in his work. In a review for The New York Times, Benjamin Genocchio referred to Egon’s work as “sites of cultural compression, fetishization and wonder.”

[Image: Dylan Egon, American Holy Relics (Bone, Mickey, Ball, M-4), mixed media on board, 36 x 42 x 3.5 inches, (91.44 x 106.68 x 8.89 cm)]

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from April 05, 2014 to May 03, 2014

Artist(s)

Dylan Egon

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