Jaybo Monk returns to Los Angeles this week with a new exhibition of works on paper at Soze Gallery. Jaybo who is known for his large canvas work offers a more intimate look with “Paper Tears”. Sketches and mix media studies enable the viewer a closer look into the process and ethos of the artist. Jaybo is not only able to provide important new pieces that might be affordable to collectors that usually couldn’t afford his large canvas work, he also gives them something he hasn’t shared before. Drawings and paper work that is normally kept as part of the artists collection are now being shown together in a large body of work. Jaybo will have 60 works on paper that he initiated in Berlin and took to Portugal to complete. Jaybo explains the new work in the last portion of this statement for the show. Make sure not to miss this opportunity to see an impressive body of work on paper from the talented Jaybo Monk.
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JAYBO MONK
Solo Exhibition at Soze Gallery
“PAPER TEARS”
AUGUST 10 Saturday 7-10pm
2020 E. 7th St Suite B
Los Angeles, CA. 90021
“I AM THE FIST IN MY OWN FACE / MY HURRICANE OF SILENCE / THE GLANCE IN MY BLINDNESS / I AM MY OWN COLLECTION OF ALMOSTS.
My work is a journey into the bits and pieces of my memories. I am working with the method of chance, which means, I let things happen without trying to get any meaning into them. I neither know in advance what it is meant to look like nor during the process what i am aiming at and what to do about getting there . I am attached to the idea of cutting things up and putting them together. I think, the concept of a collage is important in all aspects of our century-I deconstruct to reconstruct.I use the force of contrast between rough and clean, between violent and calm. I am researching some new stimulation to learn how to create new mistakes. I basically do what I love to do and what I love to do confuses me sometimes. But I guess, I like to be confused. Drawings is a blind, beautiful and desperate effort to be surrounded by the incomprehensible In this particular pieces , i try to keep influences playing with me during a travel to Portugal to see how it will affect the work. i started all pieces in Berlin , let them evolve in Portugal , than finishing them in Berlin . some of the title has been selected before the drawings some after . the small sized drawings allowed me to be able to work on them simultaneously and also it was a kind showing love to the not so fortunate collectors out there who helped me to be what i am now.”