Jaimie Warren “Somebody To Love”

American Medium

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[Image: Self-portrait as Pennywise the Clown with the Blob, Jason, Freddy, Chucky, Leprechaun and Basketcase in re-creation of the Nativity scene from the Vyššì Brod Altarpiece (1350), (2014) 30x40 in.]

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American Medium presents “Somebody to Love” Jaimie Warren’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Following a six week residency at American Medium, Warren will unveil a new photo, video, and performance piece that was created in collaboration with high school students Kim Corona, Genesis Monegro, Arti Tripathi, and Daria Mateescu.

This artwork functions as an elaborate tribute piece to Freddy Mercury and the infamous band Queen; a re-creation of Sts. Cosmas and Damian (1370–75) by Matteo di Pacino. The painting’s original image is interspersed with a bizarre variety of pop culture and art historical figures injected into the work by Warren and her collaborators. This will be the fourth in a series of projects in which Warren has worked with unique communities in residencies to conceive and create new performance-based works.

Warren’s installation and accompanying video present a tableaux vivant come to life. The original painting, titled above, depicts a fictional documentation of the amputation of a leg from a man stricken with bubonic plague. Within Warren’s new work (crafted from plastic, cardboard, and papier-maché) B-horror movie stars, contemporary pop stars, living piles of mush and eyeballs, and master opera singers unite to form a strange and heartfelt musical act dedicated to one of Warren’s biggest influences. Warren creates a vision where real-life legends and those culled from our collective visual history are acting within the same plane. Warren demonstrates her (and our) ability to empathize with personalities of a ridiculous range; regardless of their age, gender, species, or plane of existence.

Additional photographs by Warren will be on view in the back gallery.

Jaimie Warren was born in 1980 in Waukesha, Wisconsin and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She is co-creator and co-director of the community-engaged traveling collective Whoop Dee Doo.

Recent solo exhibitions of Warren’s work have been presented at The Hole in New York, San Francisco Camerawork in California, Higher Pictures in New York and the Kennedy Museum in Ohio. Warren is a 2015 fellow in Interdisciplinary Arts from the New York Foundation for the Arts, she is the recipient of the 2014 Baum Award for An Emerging American Photographer, and she is the subject of a 2008 monograph published by Aperture. Warren is a new featured artist in ART21’s documentary series “New York Close Up”, with the first film focused on Whoop Dee Doo’s large-scale collaboration with the Urban Youth Theater Ensemble at Abrons Arts Center.

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Schedule

from August 09, 2015 to September 13, 2015

Opening Reception on 2015-08-09 from 18:00 to 22:00

Artist(s)

Jaimie Warren

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