Jason Villegas. November 8th – 28th, 2008.

Hunter Gatherer

Chris Villegas - Receiver Gallery

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About the Show

Brooklyn based artist, Jason Villegas, showcases his new works at Receiver Gallery. Plush fabric sculptures, wall paintings, installations and video work reflect the common theme of consumption of products, sex, death and information. Villegas' ability to create magnificent beasts out of everyday items such as tape and cardboard ensures that the gallery will be transformed into a meeting place for mythical creatures and human observers alike.

 

About the Artist

Jason Villegas lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He is currently in the exhibition Phantom Sightings at the Ruffino Tamayo Museum in Mexico City.

“My work is an environment wherein naive representations of the sexual subconscious meld with abstractions of animals, machines, microbiology, cosmology and merchandise. It is a polymorphous and perverse expression of desire. Collection and consumption fuel the current human experience as a force in government, society, and the psyche. I subvert fashion logos, animals, and weaponry to create humorous and absurd engagements, which mirror societal conditioning. I create a primordial sea of frenetic mutation and unrelenting consumption, using the images and icons of high and low consumer cultures found throughout the world. I simultaneously explore the grand social schema as well as sub-cultural sexual and artistic realms.

My work reflects these basic instinctual mechanisms through metaphoric drawings, painting, sculpture, video and installation. It is an unpolished and coarsely made tribute to global capitalism and progress. I use and consume whatever acquirable materials are available to me. I deconstruct and reconstruct clothing and knock of fashion products to create tanks, weaponry, orifices, and animals. I work primarily in low-tech materials in order to maximize my invasion into a space. I allow cardboard, fabric, found objects, and detritus to formulate site-specific configurations of these elements and images. Although unavoidable narratives arise from the use of characters, and sales parody it is not my intention to provide linear information. I want the viewer to become consumed within the relentless devouring, multiplying and destructive nature of my paint splatters, immediate drawing, cosmic beast wall paintings, amorphous sculpture, and impoverished landscapes.”

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