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Jonathan Adolphe
Early Jonathan Adolphe Painting, Dated 1983

1983

About the Item

Jonathan Adolphe (American, b. 1952) Stolen From the Mirror, 1983 Oil on canvas 24 x 24 in. Signed & inscribed verso: Jonathan Adolphe, Middle #2 Panel, Stolen From the Mirror, 1983, please don't stand upside down Solo Exhibitions: Gallery Baraz, Istanbul Turkey Marc Jancou Gallerie, Zurich, Switzerland Bess Cutler Gallery, New York City Gallery Nagata, Tokyo, Japan Colin De Land – American Fine Arts Company, New York City Partial List of GroupExhibitions: Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York City Renèe Fotouhi Fine Art East, New York City, “JFK In Memoriam: Myth and Denial Galerie Langer Fain, Paris, France Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, “New Generations: New York” Patrick & Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, “Romanticism and Cynicism In Contemporary Art” Peder Bonnier, New York City, “Art Totem” Jonathan currently works out of his studio in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Excerpt from interview with Voyage LA: "I studied theater design at New York University but always wanted to be a painter. The painting I was drawn to make was a hybrid of both painting and sculpture. My first one man show in New York were abstract paintings covered in sand. My second one may show in New York were paintings on chalkboards with texts. I’ve had one man shows in Zurich, Tokyo, and Istanbul. Afterward, I felt stuck; an artist’s block had come over me. I turned my attention to raising my daughter and focusing on her becoming an artist. Julia Adolphe is now a successful contemporary classical composer commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and others. When I returned to my work, I started painting portraits on wax. Chrissie Iles, curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, awarded me 1st Prize for a diptych. A year later, a tornado hit my studio and ripped the roof off. I lost 20 years of work. This crisis was a blessing in disguise. With nothing left to lose, I turned to urethane and fiberglass. These were materials I always longed to work with because of their possible translucency. Their toxicity had made me leery. My solution was working at a foundry casting my images in urethane thereby embedding them beneath the surface. The next step is finishing the paintings in my studio with spray paint and airbrush."
  • Creator:
    Jonathan Adolphe (1952, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1983
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
  • More Editions & Sizes:
    Unique 1 of 1Price: $900
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  • Condition:
    Good condition except for one tear that needs patching (see photo).
  • Gallery Location:
    Larchmont, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2211211893302
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