"Somebody to Love"
Jaimie Warren
August 9th - Sept 13th, 2015
Jaimie Warren
August 9th - Sept 13th, 2015
American Medium is excited to present "Somebody to Love" Jaimie Warren's first solo exhibition with the gallery opening August 9th, 2015. Following a six week residency at American Medium, Warren will unveil a new photo, video, and performance piece that was created in collaboration with high school students Kim Corona, Genesis Monegro, Arti Tripathi, and Daria Mateescu.
This artwork functions as an elaborate tribute piece to Freddy Mercury and the infamous band Queen; a re-creation of Sts. Cosmas and Damian (1370–75) by Matteo di Pacino. The painting's original image is interspersed with a bizarre variety of pop culture and art historical figures injected into the work by Warren and her collaborators. This will be the fourth in a series of projects in which Warren has worked with unique communities in residencies to conceive and create new performance-based works.
Warren's installation and accompanying video present a tableaux vivant come to life. The original painting, titled above, depicts a fictional documentation of the amputation of a leg from a man stricken with bubonic plague. Within Warren's new work (crafted from plastic, cardboard, and papier-maché) B-horror movie stars, contemporary pop stars, living piles of mush and eyeballs, and master opera singers unite to form a strange and heartfelt musical act dedicated to one of Warren’s biggest influences. Warren creates a vision where real-life legends and those culled from our collective visual history are acting within the same plane. Warren demonstrates her (and our) ability to empathize with personalities of a ridiculous range; regardless of their age, gender, species, or plane of existence.
Jaimie Warren was born in 1980 in Waukesha, Wisconsin and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She is co-creator and co-director of the community-engaged traveling collective Whoop Dee Doo.
Recent solo exhibitions of Warren’s work have been presented at The Hole in New York, San Francisco Camerawork in California, Higher Pictures in New York and the Kennedy Museum in Ohio. Warren is a 2015 fellow in Interdisciplinary Arts from the New York Foundation for the Arts, she is the recipient of the 2014 Baum Award for An Emerging American Photographer, and she is the subject of a 2008 monograph published by Aperture. Warren is a new featured artist in ART21's documentary series "New York Close Up", with the first film focused on Whoop Dee Doo’s large-scale collaboration with the Urban Youth Theater Ensemble at Abrons Arts Center.
Jaimie Warren and Whoop Dee Doo on ART21: NEW YORK CLOSE UP
http://whoopdeedoo.tv/
http://www.dontyoufeelbetter.com/
This artwork functions as an elaborate tribute piece to Freddy Mercury and the infamous band Queen; a re-creation of Sts. Cosmas and Damian (1370–75) by Matteo di Pacino. The painting's original image is interspersed with a bizarre variety of pop culture and art historical figures injected into the work by Warren and her collaborators. This will be the fourth in a series of projects in which Warren has worked with unique communities in residencies to conceive and create new performance-based works.
Warren's installation and accompanying video present a tableaux vivant come to life. The original painting, titled above, depicts a fictional documentation of the amputation of a leg from a man stricken with bubonic plague. Within Warren's new work (crafted from plastic, cardboard, and papier-maché) B-horror movie stars, contemporary pop stars, living piles of mush and eyeballs, and master opera singers unite to form a strange and heartfelt musical act dedicated to one of Warren’s biggest influences. Warren creates a vision where real-life legends and those culled from our collective visual history are acting within the same plane. Warren demonstrates her (and our) ability to empathize with personalities of a ridiculous range; regardless of their age, gender, species, or plane of existence.
Jaimie Warren was born in 1980 in Waukesha, Wisconsin and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She is co-creator and co-director of the community-engaged traveling collective Whoop Dee Doo.
Recent solo exhibitions of Warren’s work have been presented at The Hole in New York, San Francisco Camerawork in California, Higher Pictures in New York and the Kennedy Museum in Ohio. Warren is a 2015 fellow in Interdisciplinary Arts from the New York Foundation for the Arts, she is the recipient of the 2014 Baum Award for An Emerging American Photographer, and she is the subject of a 2008 monograph published by Aperture. Warren is a new featured artist in ART21's documentary series "New York Close Up", with the first film focused on Whoop Dee Doo’s large-scale collaboration with the Urban Youth Theater Ensemble at Abrons Arts Center.
Jaimie Warren and Whoop Dee Doo on ART21: NEW YORK CLOSE UP
http://whoopdeedoo.tv/
http://www.dontyoufeelbetter.com/
Jaimie Warren in collaboration with Daria Mateescu, Kim Corona and Genesis Monegro
Somebody to Love: Self-portrait as Freddie Mercury in re-creation of Saints Cosmas and Damian by Matteo di Pacino (1350-75)
Part 1 of 3, 2015
chromogenic print
38 x 60 inches
Somebody to Love: Self-portrait as Freddie Mercury in re-creation of Saints Cosmas and Damian by Matteo di Pacino (1350-75)
Part 1 of 3, 2015
chromogenic print
38 x 60 inches
Jaimie Warren in collaboration with Daria Mateescu, Kim Corona and Genesis Monegro
Somebody to Love: Self-portrait as Freddie Mercury in re-creation of Saints Cosmas and Damian by Matteo di Pacino (1350-75)
Part 2 of 3, 2015
chromogenic print
38 x 60 inches
Somebody to Love: Self-portrait as Freddie Mercury in re-creation of Saints Cosmas and Damian by Matteo di Pacino (1350-75)
Part 2 of 3, 2015
chromogenic print
38 x 60 inches
Jaimie Warren in collaboration with Daria Mateescu, Kim Corona and Genesis Monegro
Somebody to Love: Self-portrait as Freddie Mercury in re-creation of Saints Cosmas and Damian by Matteo di Pacino (1350-75)
Part 3 of 3, 2015
chromogenic print
38 x 60 inches
Somebody to Love: Self-portrait as Freddie Mercury in re-creation of Saints Cosmas and Damian by Matteo di Pacino (1350-75)
Part 3 of 3, 2015
chromogenic print
38 x 60 inches
Jaimie Warren
Screenshot from Somebody to Love, 2015
digital video
9'57"
Screenshot from Somebody to Love, 2015
digital video
9'57"
Jaimie Warren
Screenshot from Somebody to Love, 2015
digital video
9'57"
Screenshot from Somebody to Love, 2015
digital video
9'57"
Jaimie Warren
Screenshot from Somebody to Love, 2015
digital video
9'57"
Screenshot from Somebody to Love, 2015
digital video
9'57"
Jaimie Warren
Screenshot from Somebody to Love, 2015
digital video
9'57"
Screenshot from Somebody to Love, 2015
digital video
9'57"
Jaimie Warren
Screenshot from Somebody to Love, 2015
digital video
9'57"
Screenshot from Somebody to Love, 2015
digital video
9'57"
Jaimie Warren
Screenshot from Somebody to Love, 2015
digital video
9'57"
Screenshot from Somebody to Love, 2015
digital video
9'57"
