Jason Rhoades

Jason Rhoades Fayette ( born July 9, 1965 in Newcastle, Placer County, California; † August 1, 2006 in Los Angeles ) was an American artist. Rhoades was known for its spectacular installations and large-scale productions.

Life

Rhoades, son of a California farm family, first attended the California College of Arts and Crafts ( CCAC ) in Oakland ( 1985-1986), the San Francisco Art Institute ( SFAI ) ( 1986-1988 ), the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan (1988) and studied among others with Paul McCarthy at UCLA ( 1991-1993). After his first solo exhibition in 1993 in the prestigious New York David Zwirner Gallery, he also achieved his international breakthrough. His works have been shown, especially in Europe, as in the Kunsthalle Basel, Villa Arson ( Nice), Kunsthalle Zurich, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Museum of Modern Art ( Frankfurt / M. ), Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid ) and the Kunsthalle Wien. Objects are installed in all the well-known museums of the world. In 2001 he held a visiting professorship at the Städel School in Frankfurt and presented in art container portico in Frankfurt the " Costner Complex ".

In 1999 he sat in the Hamburg Deichtorhallen the monumental sculpture object " Perfect World ", consisting of aluminum beams and wooden platforms, in an expansive scenery around. He constructed, for example, a huge phallus and presented as fluorescent tubes, all providing a different word for the female genitals. In 2002, he presented before the " PeaRoeFoam " sculpture from dried peas, salmon eggs and foam polystyrene. His object " Garage Renovation New York " is a gigantic conglomeration of everyday objects, games and tools, rubbish and waste paper; it was at the opening of the art collection of Friedrich Christian Flick at the Hamburger Bahnhof 2004 - Museum of Contemporary shown in Berlin. Rhoades has with his works inspired many other young artists.

Rhoades, who lived in Los Angeles and worked died, 41 - year surprising at Cedars -Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, from heart failure. He is survived by his wife, the artist Rachel Khedoori and his daughter Rubi.

2007 works were exhibited by him at the Venice Biennale.

Quotes

"To juggle the impossible what always an issue Throughout my work -. To take three objects, like a rubber ball, a chain saw and a live African elephant and try to juggle "