Isolation Room/Gallery Kit: Friday, 11 March 2011
Jay Lizo: Jimma!
March 11 - April 7, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, March 11 6pm-8pm
Jimmy Carter’s poetry book “Always a Reckoning” met with mixed reviews upon its publication. New York Times book reviewer Michiko Kakutani called Carter a "mediocre poet" who writes "well-meaning, dutifully wrought poems that plod from Point A to Point B without ever making a leap into emotional hyperspace, poems that lack not only a distinctive authorial voice, but also anything resembling a psychological or historical subtext." Ouch. The literary critique was a bit like the judgment of the electorate in 1980 then. But we feel Jay Lizo’s portrait of President James Carter is very cool. Indeed it is a celestial looking “Jimma”. This work is pulled from a painting series titled “A Song from My Hero Collection”, which grouped together portraits of people real and fictitious that Lizo has admired. This is the Jimmy who is perhaps best loved for his political afterlife. You know, the Jimmy we got to see after he built “habitat for humanity” houses and spoke up for Middle East peace. That’s what a true hero is A BUILDER (not destroyer). It’s almost like he’s at the strobe lit galactic disco for true heroes. Peace out Jimma!
March 11 - April 7, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, March 11 6pm-8pm
Jimmy Carter’s poetry book “Always a Reckoning” met with mixed reviews upon its publication. New York Times book reviewer Michiko Kakutani called Carter a "mediocre poet" who writes "well-meaning, dutifully wrought poems that plod from Point A to Point B without ever making a leap into emotional hyperspace, poems that lack not only a distinctive authorial voice, but also anything resembling a psychological or historical subtext." Ouch. The literary critique was a bit like the judgment of the electorate in 1980 then. But we feel Jay Lizo’s portrait of President James Carter is very cool. Indeed it is a celestial looking “Jimma”. This work is pulled from a painting series titled “A Song from My Hero Collection”, which grouped together portraits of people real and fictitious that Lizo has admired. This is the Jimmy who is perhaps best loved for his political afterlife. You know, the Jimmy we got to see after he built “habitat for humanity” houses and spoke up for Middle East peace. That’s what a true hero is A BUILDER (not destroyer). It’s almost like he’s at the strobe lit galactic disco for true heroes. Peace out Jimma!
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