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Jamal Cyrus: Currents & Currencies

Past exhibition
November 8, 2019 - January 11, 2020
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Jamal Cyrus, Jet Auto Archive – April 27, May 11, May 25, 1992 (Medicated L.A. Kente), 2018
Jamal Cyrus, Jet Auto Archive – April 27, May 11, May 25, 1992 (Medicated L.A. Kente), 2018
Jamal Cyrus, Jet Auto Archive – April 27, May 11, May 25, 1992 (Medicated L.A. Kente), 2018
Jamal Cyrus, Jet Auto Archive – April 27, May 11, May 25, 1992 (Medicated L.A. Kente), 2018

Jamal Cyrus

Jet Auto Archive – April 27, May 11, May 25, 1992 (Medicated L.A. Kente), 2018
paper and cardboard collage
40 x 88 in (101.6 x 223.5 cm)
49 x 95 in (124.5 x 241.3 cm) framed
JCY 67
Image: Jessi Bowman

Further images

  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Jamal Cyrus, Sargassum, 2019
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Jamal Cyrus, Sargassum, 2019
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) Jamal Cyrus, Sargassum, 2019
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) Jamal Cyrus, Sargassum, 2019
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“Jet Auto Archive” consists of torn pages from three issues of the artist’s personal collection of Jet Magazine. Taking inspiration from Richard Serra’s verb list, Cyrus systematically tears the pages...
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“Jet Auto Archive” consists of torn pages from three issues of the artist’s personal collection of Jet Magazine. Taking inspiration from Richard Serra’s verb list, Cyrus systematically tears the pages in predetermined proportions and glues them together again into a new configuration. Strips are reassembled using the same technique used to make a kente cloth, which he learned during his travels to Ghana. Within the larger series of the “Jet Auto Archive,” the “L.A. Medicated Kente” is an ambitious, much larger, collage-like work in which the artist offers a remedy or salve for past racial injustices. Cyrus refers, both in the title and in the work itself, to the 1992 Los Angeles race rebellions while simultaneously lamenting the decline of Jet from a progressive publication to an advertising and consumer-based magazine in the 1980s. In the piece, we find black and white images of the riots in the lower right quadrant of the composition, while elsewhere are colorful society images and flashy advertisements selling consumer products to an African American audience. Atop the collage of Jet Magazines, amulets called gris gris—packets of sacred text—are affixed and offer ‘medication’ for the injustices of the L.A. riots and the contents of the magazine.

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Provenance

From the artits's studio; Private Collection

Exhibitions

Jamal Cyrus "The End of My Beginning", Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, Houston, TX June 5 – September 29, 2021; Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, February 5 – May 29, 2022; Mississippi Museum of Art, October 29, 2022 - March 5, 2023

 

Jamal Cyrus: "Currents and Currencies", Inman Gallery, Houston, TX, November 8, 2019 - January 11, 2020

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