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Ron Jude: emmett Jan 13 - Mar 5, 2011
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Ron Jude
Untitled (from emmett) 1977 / 2010
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Ron Jude
Untitled (from emmett) 1983 / 2010
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Ron Jude
Untitled (from emmett) 1983 / 2010
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Ron Jude
Untitled (from emmett) 1983 / 2010
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Ron Jude
Untitled (from emmett) 1984 / 2010
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Ron Jude
Untitled (from emmett) 1984 / 2010
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Gallery Luisotti is pleased to announce Ron Jude’s second solo show in Los Angeles. In the gallery, Jude will exhibit a selection of works from his latest project, emmett. Originally photographed by the artist in central Idaho in the early 1980s and forgotten for nearly three decades, the images in emmett range from hazy scenes of a summertime drag race, midnight horror films on a TV set, and a Nordic-looking teenager who appears as a specter from Jude's past. Reconsidered here as a "new" body of work, these early photographic efforts—vernacular in tone, lacking in irony or pretense, enhanced by cheap filters and telephoto lenses—now resonate with unexpected menace and melancholy, building on Jude's fundamental interest in exposing “the folly of rational thought” through fragmentary photographic narratives.
Related conceptually and residing thematically between two previous bodies of work, Alpine Star and Other Nature, emmett explores our desire to give structure and assign meaning to our memories, and our inability to ever fully know or understand ourselves through self-reflection. As Jude brings coherence to his own unintended "series" of emotionally charged pictures, the everyday notion of the past collides with the more philosophical and improbable idea of The Past, creating a tension between our sentimental engagement with photographs, and the nagging sense that it’s all just an illusion. Through nuanced editing and a purposeful exploitation of his own photographic mistakes, Jude fleshes out and finesses this tension into something palpable—an aesthetic inspired by equal parts Motörhead and Jean-Paul Sartre.
Ron Jude has exhibited his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including Laurence Miller Gallery, The High Museum of Art, George Eastman House, and The Photographers’ Gallery, London. He has been the past recipient of The Ferguson Award from the Friends of Photography, an Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellowship, and the James D. Phelan Award from San Francisco Camerawork. emmett was recently published as Jude’s third photobook (The Ice Plant, 2010). For a full curriculum vita of the artist, please contact Gallery Luisotti by phone or by email.
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