Hollywood, Los Angeles
Jesse Edwards
Let's Watch TV All Day
68176817 is pleased to present Let's Watch TV All Day, an exhibition of recent paintings and ceramics by Jesse Edwards. This is the artist's first solo show in Los Angeles. Let's Watch TV All Day will feature a series of ceramic televisions in which Edwards uses familiar imagery: Disney characters, Super Mario, the Simpsons, Bob Ross, and porn stars. Edwards comments on contemporary society's obsession with visual stimulation by portraying subject matter that is universally recognizable, images that the American public spends much of their time looking at. Furthering this idea, Edwards created a series of cell phones with pornographic images. Many of these are "selfies," cell phone photos often sent via text. In his still life paintings, Edwards portrays drug paraphernalia, soda cans, junk food, flowers, and similar every day objects. Edwards historicizes American counterculture by representing these items in a traditional still life format. Jesse Edwards (b. 1977, Hayden Lake, ID, lives and works in New York, NY. Edwards studied oil painting at the Gage Academy of Art in Seattle and later studied ceramics with Charles Krafft. He worked with Chuck Close, a well-known photo-realist painter, from late 2012 to early 2013. Available for sale (order) at the exhibition will be the new monograph of Jesse Edwards work published by Vito Schnabel. The catalogue includes an interview with Alison Gingeras and an essay by David Rimanelli.