Jordan Wolfson - Untitled-1 for Sale

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Untitled, 2015

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Establishing himself over the past decade as one of America’s leading artists exploring new media and contemporary imagery, Jordan Wolfson’s work engages provocatively with the material qualities of our present moment, the new forms and technologies that define us, and their existential resonance. For the fifth in the annual series of Chisenhale Gallery's 'Archive Editions',Wolfson has produced this Untitled limited edition.

The work continues Wolfson’s picturing of a cast of animated characters often wreaking low-grade havoc in their respective cartoon worlds. The figure in Untitled, is an ambiguous character drawing the viewer into an awkward intimacy. The commercial movie poster format and MAD Magazine tone, contrasts sharply with the confessional, psychotherapy thought bubble. Vulgar, intimate and heart-breakingly melancholic in turn, Wolfson flouts social niceties and draws out the grotesqueness of an excess of information and lives lived within the relentless exposure of social media.

Courtesy of Chisenhale Gallery

About Jordan Wolfson

New York-based artist Jordan Wolfson is a rising star in the global art world who has stated, “I like the viewers to do the interpretive legwork;” indeed his videos, sculptures, and performances present baffling, enigmatic narratives, often conveyed by imaginative animated characters. Though Wolfson studied sculpture at RISD, he has gained significant recognition—inclusion in the 2006 Whitney Biennial, for instance—largely because of his video art, peculiar mash-ups of elements pulled from the depths of the internet as well as industry materials culled from the worlds of advertising, music, and technology. Frequently revolving around a single speaking protagonist, these videos, or sometimes they take the form of animatronic sculptures, reference sexuality, art history, consumer culture, and male-female relationships. Ultimately, Wolfson's work is underlined by clear artistic intentions—for him, the intersection of art and technology is a specific space, one in which the project of modernism continues to unfold. He explains, “I’m not interested in cartoons. I’m not interested in computer animation. I’m interested in the experience of seeing something.”

Wolfson is the 2009 recipient of the prestigious Cartier Award, granted by the Frieze Foundation. In addition to his inclusion in the Whitney Biennial, Wolfson’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst in Ghent, the Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Chisenhale Gallery in London, and the Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art in New York, among others.