Parker’s Box artists: Jason Glasser and Joshua Stern Exhibition
Leo Kesting
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Trail-blazing is certainly part of the theme of Ray Sell’s Raise ‘Em to be Cowboys, affording both common ground and dialogue with the work and careers of Jason Glasser and Joshua Stern.
Jason Glasser was one of the founder members of the cult indy rock band, Clem Snide, and has continually oscillated between making paintings, videos and rock music. His subjects include recurring hunters, cowboys and motorbikes, for example, often reverse painted on auto-glass. Glasser explores a love-hate relationship with what might be the father figure, or the symbol of authority, government, or even planetary oppression…Joshua Stern first exhibited his paintings with Colin De Land at American Fine Arts, before beginning to photograph his own maquettes of bizarre yet familiar psychological worlds. Stern has recently returned to painting, and a monumental series of “Beaver” paintings, some of which are presented concurrently at Leo Kesting Gallery and at Parker’s Box. As Stern’s paintings testify, the beaver played a key role in American trail-blazing, as the US economy was founded on trading in beaver skins, a commodity far more important at the time than oil is today. The resulting resonance of beavers appears far more often than we may realize, gliding smoothly and surely into the masculine world that Ray Sell’s work inhabits.
[Image: Jason Glasser "Motorcycle III" (2006) collage paper, spray paint, tile primer on primed glass, 15 3/4 x 11 3/4 in.]
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Schedule
from June 19, 2008 to July 13, 2008
Opening Reception: June 19, 7–10 pm.