{"id":36436,"date":"2020-07-24T01:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T08:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=36436"},"modified":"2020-07-23T08:32:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T15:32:37","slug":"joellen-wang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/24\/joellen-wang\/","title":{"rendered":"joellen wang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=36492\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36492\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=36496\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36496\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36496\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/joellenwang2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"9241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/joellenwang2.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/joellenwang2-19x300.jpg 19w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t decide&#8230; should I write about <em>#tarplife<\/em>, a series filled with blue tarps painted into the photographic interiors of design books, or a bunch of campers who&#8217;ve found their way into the pages of\u00a0outdoorsy magazines from a body of work titled <em>&#8220;Encamped&#8221;<\/em> &#8230; okay fine, I&#8217;ll show BOTH!\u00a0 This is the work of Seattle based artist <a href=\"http:\/\/art.joellenwang.com\/\">JoEllen Wang<\/a>, and this is part of her artist statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; At the heart of my process, where all my inspiration comes from, is everyday life in an urban environment. I paint images of familiar objects and subjects which for me simultaneously trigger nostalgia and complicated feelings about reality. I like to take my subject out of context, or see it out of scale, as an exercise in questioning the value I associate with it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I paint diminutive campers in generic settings. The subject matter is homelessness, but the paintings are small and cute, and easily consumed, like candy. I paint campers and tent cities into picturesque landscapes. It\u2019s celebrating the great outdoors, but also seeing the misplaced displaced-the people easily ignored at home&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like candy, indeed. Happy Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t decide&#8230; should I write about #tarplife, a series filled with blue tarps painted into the photographic interiors of design books, or a bunch of campers who&#8217;ve found their way into the pages of\u00a0outdoorsy magazines from a body of work titled &#8220;Encamped&#8221; &#8230; okay fine, I&#8217;ll show BOTH!\u00a0 This is the work of Seattle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,6,7,185],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36436"}],"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=36436"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36497,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36436\/revisions\/36497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}