Painting Alum presents work around the globe: New York to Shanghai
September 16, 2019
Though Philadelphia is his home base, Jonathan Lyndon Chase BFA ’13 (Painting) hits the road this fall to present his works here on the east coast and abroad in East Asia.
Chase is presenting at the Hauser & Wirth Gallery in New York from Sept. 10 through Oct. 26 in the group exhibition Personal Private Public, in which featured artists will explore the inner life through three main themes: introspection, intimacy and voyeurism. On the other side of the globe, Chase is simultaneously presenting his first international solo exhibition at the New Century Art Foundation’s Pond Society in Shanghai from Sept. 6 through Oct. 19, 2019.
Drawing from personal experience, Chase explores the relationship between gender and space as social constructs, how dominant social norms exist within those spaces and the ways in which gender identity is affected by our immediate environment. He places fragmented, multidimensional figures within abstract and ambiguous backdrops, eroding existing structures and forceful definitions of conventionally gendered bodies in various settings—indoor and outdoor, intimate and public. His engagement with the black figure is complex and multifaceted, frequently contemplating the duality of emotions and experience.
Chase’s practice spans across several media (painting, drawing, collage and sculpture), often in the same work. His work is included in several prominent collections around the world, such as Bronx Museum of the Arts, High Art Museum (Atlanta), Institute of Contemporary Art (Miami), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Whitney Museum of American Art (New York) and Woodmere Art Museum (Philadelphia).