Beschreibung:

Jonni Cheatwood Preston Still has Petit Feet, 2020 Acrylic on Paper Signed verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) Jonni Cheatwood is a Brazilian-American visual artist working across many different disciplines including painting, photography, graphic design and textile art. Cheatwood's work describes the broad visual ideas stemming from still life, abstraction and minimalism, but his approach is a wonderful amalgam of his artistic disciplines in which veritable scraps of canvas are hand-sewn together before his idiosyncratic mark-making is thereafter applied to the newly created surface. Denim, mesh, burlap sacks, t-shirts, blankets, t-shirts, screen-prints, and even his father's worn leather satchel have all made their way into his work at one time or another. The graffiti-like scribbles, scratches and primitive colours of Cheatwood's work is the controlled chaotic work of an erudite expressionist brought up on Saturday morning cartoons; suggesting deconstructed contour lines and bright, unforgiving primary colours often applied directly from the tube or oversize pastel. Beginning with direct marks, squiggles and doodles, Cheatwood reacts and builds up his compositions over time, working with the studio detritus that can build up as a result of working on the floor and from the physical nature of his process - allowing this to become part of his formation of the work. The many references housed in his work - whether intentional or unintentional - seem like a patchwork of Cheatwood's own autobiography - and the works come across like humorous albeit highly personalized recollections of his life at various times. Jonni Cheatwood (b. 1986, Thousand Oaks, CA) lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He graduated from Arizona State University, Tempe, in 2011. Solo exhibitions include: ' Fresh Out of Fiddles', Makasiini Contemporary, Turku, Finland (2020); 'Tyger Tyger', Urban Spree, Berlin, Germany (2019); 'That's Dallas Baby, Artual Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon (2019); 'Dressed Up for the Letdown', Over the Influence, Hong Kong, (2018); 'She's Heavy on the Razzmatazz', MAKASIINI CONTEMPORARY, Turku, Finland (2018) and; 'Same Hero, New Boots', TW Fine Art, Brisbane, Australia (2018). Group exhibitions include: Fresh Out of Fiddles, MAKASIINI Contemporary, (2020), UNTITLED San Francisco, MAKASIINI Contemporary (2020); 'Seven Days Are Too Long', Mirus Gallery, Denver, Colorado (2019); 'The Atlantic Bridge', Galerie Kremers, Berlin, Germany (2019); 'Office Hours', New Museum, Los Angeles, California (2018); 'View From the Cheap Seats', Chimento Contemporary, Los Angeles, California (2018); 'The Urban Experience', Artual Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon (2018); 'FRESHAF', TW Fine Art, Brisbane Australia (2017); and 'Buy What You Love', Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York NY (2017). Cheatwood first exhibited with BEERS London for the group exhibition '75 Works on Paper' (2017), he exhibited at Volta NY with BEERS in March 2018 and EXPO Chicago with BEERS in September 2019.