James Krone
Artists James Krone |
About In Lieu of a Science of Memory Circus Gallery is proud to present James Krone’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. The show will consist of paintings that correlate images of the failures of Ronald Reagan’s aesthetic projection of America with Andy Warhol’s aesthetics of distance, creating a very American body of imagery through the fractured lens of subjectivity. In Lieu of a Science of Memory. In Lieu of a Science of Memory is an exhibition of works that create a fictional mental location by using a subjective internalization of ephemerally connected cultural histories. Such elements as documents from the Reagan administration, Franz Kafka’s diaries, Andy Warhol’s flower paintings, images of Jodie Foster, and of John Hinckley Jr., were pervasive in forming his own visual vocabulary, and his understanding for the potential of language within aesthetics. The fractured alterations that Krone has made in these representations are based upon the misinterpretations or mental representations of early memory. These culled historical substrates create a bastard theory that is forming between an educated adult analysis, and the solipsistic perceptions recollected from youth. In Lieu of a Science of Memory is in many ways about potential, regarding the goals of painting, which for Krone, have always been about search, amnesia, desire and residue. Ultimately, all that passes through the mind, is indistinguishable from personal experience. Born in Chicago and living in Los Angeles, James Krone has shown throughout the US and Europe including shows in Austria, Sweden, Germany, Denmark and the UK. He has up-coming solo shows at PawnShop in London and Co-Lab in Copenhagen. Krone received his BFA from The School of the Art Institute in Chicago and is currently attending the Mountain School of Arts. |