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6/5/2004

Sugar Daddy

Jack the Pelican, New York

Jerry Kearns Paintings, 1992-2004. Jerry Kearns was known as the most rock and roll aggressive painter to come out of the Vietnam era. In the 90s, he re-invented himself. Now, Sugar Daddy unleashes the full force of his anti-war passion.


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JERRY KEARNS PAINTINGS 1992-2004

Jerry Kearns was known as the most rock and roll aggressive painter to come out of the Vietnam era.

In the 90s, he re-invented himself.

Now, Sugar Daddy unleashes the full force of his anti-war passion.

Jack the Pelican is pleased to present "Sugar Daddy: Jerry Kearns Paintings, 1992–2004." On view are three divergent bodies of work from a prolific span in the career of one of America’s most assiduously political painters, culminating in his spectacular display of anti-war passion.

Jerry Kearns was the most rock and roll aggressive painter to come out of the Vietnam era. For 25 years, his works were politically charged and graphically explosive. 'Sugar Daddy' begins with 5 high-voltage paintings from Kearns’ 1992 'American Portrait' series. The banalities of American Pop are thrust into dramatic confrontation with hallowed images from the nation’s early beginnings. This is the Jerry that was.

Kearns moral outrage had driven him to make powerful images of social injustice. But, by the mid-90s, the identity politics movement he had helped to engender was suspicious: This longtime standard-bearer of the –isms was an 'older white male.'

In response, Jerry Kearns turned inward. And what a change: 'Kearns’ style is ‘delicate,’ very soft painting, with many silences,' noted Robert Mahoney in 1999, '[He] captures that quiet afternoon mood of midlife when all the sturm and drang of youth is gone, replaced by mature brooding upon missed opportunities.'

Today, Kearns continues to nurture this nuanced sensibility in his 'Dreams' series. The canvases are complex, multiple-figure portraits of synthetic identities, fluidly hybridized from the advertising pages of fashion magazines. His characters seem displaced and disfigured in a timeless Tiffany zone; they are bewildered and apprehensive. Moral certitude is nowhere to be found.

In a third, altogether new body of work, Kearns reasserts his assaultive nature. 'Collisions' swerves full-circle back into the hellfire of contemporary terror. Pumped-up, baby-head warriors are crucified in the flames of bombs over Baghdad. Buff, fashion-plate cyborgs beam with giddy delight at the raw power of their techno-sexuality.

Opening reception: Friday, May 7, 7–9pm

Gallery hours: Friday–Monday, 12-6pm

Jack the Pelican Presents · 487 Driggs Avenue · Brooklyn · NY · 11211
between N. 9 and N.10
Bedford stop on the L train
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Contact: 718-782-0183

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