For the past decades Jed Devine has been celebrated for his perfectly composed black and white photography and fine art platinum palladium prints with their distinct signature look. A selection of these is currently on display at the New York Gallery’s project space to highlight the difference to his new works.
Think: digital and colour. This is Jed Divine as we have never seen him before and yet he also remains the same. The New Yorker (*1944) appears to have yearned for more than his self-imposed photographic minimalism. And what a treat that he has. The new images feel just as timeless as his black and white imagery – only now they embody a timeless youth.
The press release elaborates : "In his work over the past year, Devine has created layered imagery that provides a diary of domestic activities as well as a library of the images that have defined his sensibility. Those images are both commercial and classical as the viewer encounters icons of art history juxtaposed with contemporary painting, commercial illustration, photojournalism, and three-dimensional household items. Devine’s everyday objects and reproductions of the flat art he finds on his breakfast table impart a compelling two-dimensional sculptural quality. We find ourselves asking where the photograph as object now resides in the age of post-appropriation and image saturation. Devine’s new images are thus eclectic collages veering gently into the realm of abstraction. Humorous, surprising, and challenging, this work has a decisive place in the evolution of the artist’s career, contextualizing the earlier images as pieces in what we can now understand to be a culminating point in the artist’s lifelong imagemaking."
About - Jed Devine is an American photographer who was born in Mount Kisco, New York in 1944 and received his MFA from Yale University in 1972. Jed Devine has had several gallery and museum exhibitions, including at the Bonni Benrubi Gallery. Numerous works by the artist have been sold at auction, including 'Untitled' sold at Christie's New York, East 'Photographs' in 1999. There have been Several articles about Jed Devine, including 'Art in Review; Jed Devine' written by Charles Hagen for New York Times in 1996. His photography is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; the San Francisco Museum of Art, California; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He received a Guggenheim in 1985.
Jed Devine
-12 April 2014
41 E 57th St, New York, NY 10022
