{"id":33291,"date":"2019-02-19T01:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T09:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=33291"},"modified":"2019-02-17T08:57:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T16:57:39","slug":"oliver-jeffers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/19\/oliver-jeffers\/","title":{"rendered":"oliver jeffers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=33293\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33293\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33293\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/oliverjeffers1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"5853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/oliverjeffers1.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/oliverjeffers1-30x300.jpg 30w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Damn. How did I miss this? &#8216;<em>For All We Know&#8217;<\/em>, an exhibition by American artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oliverjeffers.com\/\">Oliver Jeffers<\/a> just came down from the walls at <a href=\"http:\/\/brycewolkowitz.com\/h\/\">Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery<\/a> {NYC} on February 16th. I love everything Oliver does &#8211; from his oil paintings to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oliverjeffers.com\/books\">his absolutely fantastic kids books<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0and this show is no exception. Here is a description of this latest body of work:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;This series of paintings illuminate a dream-like nocturnal world populated by astronauts, deep-sea divers, sinking ships,\u00a0floating pianos, and burning matches. Omnipresent throughout are the night sky and the ocean &#8211; the two great and unknown\u00a0frontiers &#8211; glittered with the imaginary lines that create constellations, serving in\u00a0this\u00a0case as a mysterious key to unlock\u00a0our\u00a0world &#8230;\u00a0Jeffers&#8217; work follows the logic of dreams, of symbolic objects coming into relation with each other, and of the feelings that these\u00a0objects hold. At the center\u00a0are the\u00a0themes of perspective and connectedness: the Earth as seen from the Moon, the stars as they\u00a0appear from the face of the Earth, our minuscule presence in the greater universe, and how we relate to it all. The existential\u00a0loneliness of the astronaut in\u00a0Lost\u00a0At\u00a0Space, or of the deep-sea diver peering through his helmet in\u00a0The Rescue, is portrayed\u00a0in sensuous twilight shades. These recurring characters are seen together in\u00a0A Break with the Unknown, sharing a cup of tea\u00a0that neither can drink, watching the same bonfire reflected in their masks but seeing different things. Throughout this new\u00a0collection, Jeffers looks at how humankind has always attempted to make sense out of chaos, has always made connections between\u00a0himself and everything else. These connections, both real and imagined, suggest we are no more than the stories we tell,\u00a0and the stories we are told.\u00a0Stories that are brightly vivid, but all too brief.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Beautiful. ps. Here are a few photos from the show&#8230; that I missed!?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=33292\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33292\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33292\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/oliverjeffers_install.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"1859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/oliverjeffers_install.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/oliverjeffers_install-94x300.jpg 94w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/oliverjeffers_install-322x1024.jpg 322w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damn. How did I miss this? &#8216;For All We Know&#8217;, an exhibition by American artist Oliver Jeffers just came down from the walls at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery {NYC} on February 16th. I love everything Oliver does &#8211; from his oil paintings to his absolutely fantastic kids books\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0and this show is no exception. Here is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[308,3,285,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33294,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33291\/revisions\/33294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}