JON PYLYPCHUK

March 20th-April 24th, 2004
Opening reception: Saturday, March 20th @ 8 pm

LOCUST PROJECTS is please to present new work by
L.A.-based artist Jonathan Pylypchuk.
Pylypchuk knows something of the curse of perspicacity
that has befallen us. He knows how sad it is to try to
fall in love in a world where you see through
everything, all the time. This is the sort of sadness
that tempers his otherwise joyfully scrappy
cut-and-paste paintings and objects. Made with
fabrics, glitter, plywood, glue-on doll’s eyes, and
all sorts of low-end stuff, his work is always
ornamented with quick snippets in a language that
rolls out like an endless song for the forsaken.
Pylypchuk negotiates a strange dialectic between
knowing way too much and the unflagging need to
continue to believe. Populated by heart-shaped flowers
that speak to their beloved and emanating a quiet
sense of forlornness and loss, Pylypchuk’s work
chronicles the messy story of our broken hearts.
Working on site for a week, Pylypchuk will produce
a large sculpture for LOCUST PROJECTS. There has been
talk of a gigantic plane, fallen and limp, sitting in
the center of our barren space.
Jon Pylypchuk, born and raised in Winnepeg,
Canada, was part of the Royal Art Lodge, which
includes other now-well known artists like Marcel
Dzama. He moved to L.A. to attend graduate school at
UCLA and has since them lived in that city. He has
been exhibiting internationally for a few years. He
has had exhibitions at asprey jaques in London,
Fredrich Petzel in NewYork, and China Art Objects in
Los Angeles.

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LOCUST PROJECTS is sponsored, in part, by The Dade
Community Foundation with support of The Miami-Dade
County Dept of Cultural Affairs, The Cultural Affairs
Council, The Mayor, and The Miami-Dade Board of County
Commissioners.