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Jackie& Brian& Eartha& Joan.
Jaclyn Conley, Gallery | Brussels, 4 - 27.06.2020

Jackie& Brian& Eartha& Joan.: Jaclyn Conley

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Jackie& Brian& Eartha& Joan., Jaclyn Conley

The paintings in this series are a way of considering the question; who are we supposed to look up to? What have we decided they are for us?

We seem to need leaders in order to know ourselves. Leaders to look to, made through pictures. Searching through the White House photo archives in the series All The President’s Children, moving through the Presidential museums and monuments, speaking to the tourists of these places I became more interested in what these presidential figures have become for us than who they actually were. They have become characters for us in a historic and evolving narrative; armatures for us to hang up our own stories. We’ve always needed these idealized characters to place ourselves; to justify, anchor, to imagine ourselves.  Painting is a space for this imagining.

In Jackie& Brian& Eartha& Joan. I’m continuing an interest in American’s self-conceptions, now looking at American pop culture icons of the past who have similarly become mythical figures. Though the images are abstracted and transformed through a process of painting and collage they are seated in a sense of awe and nostalgia.

“Our favorite people and our favorite stories become so not by any inherent virtue, but because they illustrate something deep in the grain, something unadmitted.”  - Joan Didion

The paintings in this series are a way of considering the question; who are we supposed to look up to? What have we decided they are for us ? They are stories ingrained in our own, guides representing a way to move through the world.

 

The characters in Jackie& Brian& Eartha& Joan. are a varied cast of lives that are harrowing, triumphant, tragic and beautiful. They represent ideas of the past that we cling to today. We invoke them like saints cards.


Jaclyn Conley

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Works
  • JC_Jimi_2020_P1163873a small_
    Jaclyn Conley
    Jimi, 2020
    oil on panel with collage
    213.36 x 152.4 cm
    84 x 60 in
  • JC_Red Jackie_2020_P1163820a_
    Jaclyn Conley
    Red Jackie, 2020
    oil on panel with collage
    213.36 x 152.4 cm
    84 x 60 in
  • The7thBrother_40x40_2020
    Jaclyn Conley
    The 7th Brother, 2020
    oil on panel with collage
    101.6 x 101.6 cm
    40 x 40 in
  • AfterTheBattleOfCamperdown_60x60_2019
    Jaclyn Conley
    After The Battle of Camperdown, 2019
    oil on panel collage
    152.4 x 152.4 cm
    60 x 60 in
  • JC_Blue Madonna_2020_P1163860 2a
    Jaclyn Conley
    Blue Madonna, 2020
    oil on panel with collage
    76.2 x 60.96 cm
    30 x 24 in
  • CarolineAndJackie_48x60_2020
    Jaclyn Conley
    Caroline And Jackie, 2020
    oil on panel with collage
    152.4 x 121.92 cm
    60 x 48 in
  • JC_Eartha_2020_P1163873a
    Jaclyn Conley
    Eartha, 2020
    oil on panel with collage
    213.36 x 152.4 cm
    84 x 60 in
  • EarthaAtElRancho_84x60_2020
    Jaclyn Conley
    Eartha at El Rancho, 2020
    oil on panel with collage
    213.36 x 152.4 cm
    84 x 60 in
  • Capture d’écran 2019-02-27 à 15.27.08
    Jaclyn Conley
    Easter, Palm Beach, 2019
    oil on panel
    193.04 x 193.04 cm
    76 x 76 in
  • JC_It’s OK Brother Brian_P1163844a
    Jaclyn Conley
    It’s OK Brother Brian, 2020
    oil on panel with collage
    213.36 x 152.4 cm
    84 x 60 in
  • JackieWithFlowers_8x6_2020
    Jaclyn Conley
    Jackie with Flowers, 2020
    oil on panel collage
    20 x 15 cm
    7 13/16 x 5 14/16 in
  • JC_Jimi_2020_P1163873a small_
    Jaclyn Conley
    Jimi, 2020
    oil on panel with collage
    213.36 x 152.4 cm
    84 x 60 in
  • JC_Joan_2020_P1163864a_crop
    Jaclyn Conley
    Joan, 2020
    oil on panel with collage
    213.36 x 152.4 cm
    84 x 60 in
  • MJAndTheGipper_24x24_2020
    Jaclyn Conley
    MJ and The Gipper, 2020
    oil on panel with collage
    60.96 x 60.96 cm
    24 x 24 in
  • NightOfLight_40x30_2020
    Jaclyn Conley
    Night of Light, 2020
    oil on panel collage
    101.6 x 76.2 cm
    40 x 30 in
  • Smile_30x40_2020
    Jaclyn Conley
    Smile, 2020
    oil on panel collage
    76.2 x 101.6 cm
    30 x 40 in
  • SweetCaroline_48x36_2020
    Jaclyn Conley
    Sweet Caroline, 2020
    oil on panel with collage
    121.92 x 91.44 cm
    48 x 36 in
  • TheEternalLight_40x30_2020
    Jaclyn Conley
    The Eternal Light, 2020
    oil on panel
    101.6 x 76.2 cm
    40 x 30 in
  • JC_The Luncheon_2020_P1163867a
    Jaclyn Conley
    The Luncheon, 2020
    oil on panel with collage
    40.64 x 81.28 cm
    16 x 32 in
    Diptych : 2 x 16 x 16 inches
  • JC_The Muse_2020_P1163844a
    Jaclyn Conley
    The Muse, 2020
    oil on panel with collage
    213.36 x 152.4 cm
    84 x 60 in
  • BlueJackie_84x60_2020
    Jaclyn Conley
    Blue Jackie, 2020
    oil on panel with collage
    213.36 x 152.4 cm
    84 x 60 in
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  • Jaclyn Conley

    Jaclyn Conley

    Monography 2015-2020 Maruani Mercier Gallery, 2020 Book 196 pages
    Publisher: Maruani Mercier Gallery
    ISBN: 978-2-930487-36-6
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