JEROME in Los Angeles

9/17/2023

"Pictures Girls Make": Portraitures
Curated by Alison M. Gingeras

I am pleased to announce that Jerome Caja is included in the new Blum & Poe exhibition — "Pictures Girls Make": Portraitures. It is curated by Alison M. Gingeras and is on display from September 9 to October 21, 2023 in Culver City (Los Angeles). This show is impressive, disarming and powerful. It takes up the entire exhibition space, spanning multiple rooms on two floors and feels more like a museum than your typical white-walled art gallery.

This exhibition places Jerome back into the contemporary art narrative outside of San Francisco, and alongside more than 50 other artists from the early nineteenth century to the present, including Elaine de Kooning, Joan Brown, Somaya Critchlow, and many more.

If you are in the LA area, don’t miss this show. It has four of Jerome’s “Little Lovelies” beautifully peppered throughout.

Make sure not to miss the wonderful secret room that has its own separate entrance from the patio area. It is marvelous! One of my favorite Jerome pieces — “Virgin and Her Cock” — is tucked away there. Even though the piece is the smallest work of art on the wall, it stands out next to the larger-than-life works in the room. When I was there for the opening reception, it was the most photographed piece in the room, and thanks to the new Barbie movie, you will understand why.

Lastly, The Jerome Project wants to give a very special thank you to Jeff Poe and Alison Gingeras. Jeff has been a huge champion of Jerome’s work since the 1990s. He was the one who introduced Jerome to Alison. She understands Jerome, and it is an honor to have her be a part of this ever-growing, strange Jerome family.

"X Studies the work of Pythagoras"
by Somaya Critchlow
circa 2022

EXHIBITION LOGISTICS:
Location: Blum & Poe (Los Angeles)
Phone: (310) 836-2062
Address: 2727 S La Cienega Blvd
Dates: Sep 9th - Oct 21st
Hours: Tue - Sat (10:00 to 6:00)
(Closed Sun & Mon)

PLEASE NOTE: All images here are from Blum & Poe's website and photographed by Hannah Mjølsnes.

"Aquarius"
by Jerome Caja
circa 1995

"Madonna and Child"
by Jerome Caja
circa 1995

"Oops"
by Jerome Caja
circa 1995

"Virgin with Her Cock"
by Jerome Caja
circa 1995

Excerpt From Alison Gingeras’ Curatorial Exhibition Statement

“Pictures girls make” is a quip attributed to Willem de Kooning who purportedly dismissed the inferior status of his wife Elaine’s portrait practice. Inverting the original dismissal into an affirmation, “Pictures Girls Make” is a rallying cry for this exhibition, which examines how different forms of portraitures defy old aesthetic, social, and ideological norms.

Both historically and contemporarily speaking, the portrait has always been far more than a rendering of a specific person’s likeness. Portraiture engages with ideas of identity, subjectivity, and agency. Moving beyond binary thinking, the exhibition strives to emphasize the diversity of subjects, complexities of biography, and array of individual characters that artists have been able to capture through various modes of portrait making.

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by Anthony Cianciolo

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