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Candy Jernigan's collages and photographs of scavenged material were little known outside of her artistic inner circle when she died in 1991. Recently unearthed in her basement studio, this Evidence speaks for itself, and the poignant, elegant introduction by Chuck Close is an added bonus.
When Candy Jernigan died at age 39, she left behind a tremendous oeuvre of paintings, prints, sculpture, theatrical designs and travel notebooks. Evidence: The Art of Candy Jernigan exhibits more than 100 color images of her extraordinary work, which often transformed refuse into displays that fused art with anthropology. Found Dope Part II, for example, showcases hundreds of brightly capped crack vials that she found in her poor neighborhood. The beautifully designed book makes a fitting retrospective for an immensely talented artist.
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For eight years after her untimely death in 1991, the evidence of artist Candy Jernigan's life was stored in a quiet Manhattan basement. Drawers and shelves were crammed with paintings, collages, drawings, journals, and eclectic installation pieces like Ninety-nine Bottles of Beer on the Wall-composed of, well, ninety-nine small laboratory bottles of beer on a wall. Little known until now outside a circle of New York's artistic avant- garde, Jernigan's one-of-a-kind talent is finally brought to light in Evidence. The works collected here reveal a fierce and funny creative spirit, an artist whose commitment to documenting life as she really found it led her not only to record sample swipes of the food she consumed, but also to stuff a roadkill rat and lovingly arrange it in a diorama. Jernigan's method - using the precision of a scientist to reveal the souls of discarded objects - makes her advocacy of the overlooked at once surprisingly charming and thought-provoking. Including four gatefolds, Evidence is an art book that gives readers a witty, transformative vision of the stuff that composes our lives - and bears witness to the genius of a truly original thinker.
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Inside This Book Citations: This book cites 3 books | 1 book that cites this book Explore: Citations | Concordance | Text Stats Key Phrases - SIPs: food smears, pop tops, found objects Key Phrases - CAPs: Dead Bug Book Plate, Bottles of Beer, Candy Jernigan, Mexican Holiday, Our Daily (more) Browse Sample Pages: Front Cover | Copyright | Excerpt | Back Cover | Surprise Me! |
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