Talk:Jason Rhoades

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Rhoades was taken from his home to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center early on the morning of August 1, 2006, where he was pronounced dead. The cause of death is not yet known; an autopsy is scheduled, and a coroner's report due in six to eight weeks

Still? This six to eight weeks never seems to end --Dbagnall 07:27, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Intro, heading name, and posthumous reception
Hi. I hope to work with one or several Wikipedia editors to make this article a truer reflection of the life and artistic career of Jason Rhoades. The following edits are the beginning of a multi-step process to do that.
 * The way the introduction is written presently, readers do not get an accurate overall view of what the life and work of Jason Rhoades was all about. Please replace the introduction with the following, which adds a brief but descriptive summary of Rhoades' work, and removes an unnecessary detail that is not relevant to an overall summary.
 * Jason Fayette Rhoades (July 9, 1965 – August 1, 2006) was an American installation artist.  Better known in Europe, where he exhibited regularly for the last twelve years of his life, Rhoades was celebrated for his combination dinner party/exhibitions that feature violet neon signs (a form of word art) and his large scale sculptural installations inspired by his rural upbringing in Northern California and Los Angeles car culture. His work often incorporates building materials and found objects assembled with "humor and conceptual rigor." He was known for by-passing conventional ideas of taste and political correctness in his pursuit of the creative drive.


 * Please change the heading "Career and death" to just "Career"
 * Please move the following (next to the last) sentence from the "Career" section and place it in the "Personal life" section, with one small typo correction:
 * Rhoades died August 1, 2006, in Los Angeles of heart failure. He was married to Australian-born artist Rachel Khedoori and they had a daughter named Rubi.


 * Please add the following new section with the following heading "Posthumous reception" after the "Personal life" section, with the following new content added:
 * Since his death, Rhoades has received additional recognition through numerous exhibitions and publications. In 2013, the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania hosted the first major survey exhibition of his work in the US, "Jason Rhoades: Four Roads." Four of the artist's installations took up the entire museum, and a publication by the ICA featured critical essays by Ingrid Schaffner, Martha Buskirk, Chris Kraus, and Paul Schimmel.
 * In 2014, David Zwirner presented PeaRoeFoam, the first exhibition that brought together multiple components of the artist's ongoing project of the same name.
 * In 2015, The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University produced "Multiple Deviations," an exhibition of Rhoades' work that included the first near-complete presentation of the artist's multiples, showcasing his large installations created from "the debris of popular culture."
 * In 2017, Hauser & Wirth presented "Jason Rhoades. Installations, 1994-2006," the artist's first major exhibition in Los Angeles, the city where he lived and worked. Covering 2,600 square meters of space, (28,000 square feet,) the exhibition presented six of the artist's installations including Swedish Erotica and Fiero Parts (1994); My Brother/Brancuzi(1995); The Creation Myth (1998), My Madinah. In pursuit of my ermitage (2004); The Black Pussy…and the Pagan Idol Workshop (2005); and Tijuanatanjierchandelier (2006).

Thanks so much. I am pinging, and  who have shown an interest in related topics and also helped with my edit requests in the past. Stewart for HW (talk) 18:59, 7 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your note and this helpful information and sourcing @Stewart for HW. I'm unable to work on this tonight in depth, although I've handled the career/personal life information. I'm also pinging @Netherzone and @CT55555 who also work on art/artists with me. Netherzone, CT: I "met" Stewart on another page recently, and happy to help him on this although I'm mostly offline and then away for a few days. If either of you has a moment, mind an eye to this? Star   Mississippi  01:21, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
 * @Star Mississippi, @Stewart for HW, hello and thank you for the ping regarding the Jason Rhoades article. As much as I'd like to help with this project, I must decline as I have a conflict of interest. Netherzone (talk) 02:24, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Whoops, sorry about that @Netherzone. I think I forgot. @Stewart for HW if I can't get to it before I'm away and no one else has been able to, I'll work on this next week. Star   Mississippi  12:47, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Apologies again for the delay, @Stewart for HW. I've implemented each of your changes and added one source to help with the lack of sourcing on past installations. Let me know if I missed anything? To me, the Posthumous reception section read better as prose, but happy to convert it to bullets if you'd prefer. Wasn't a strong preference on my end and isn't policy related. Thanks again! Star   Mississippi  14:54, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

Artistic philosophy and Selected posthumous exhibitions
Hi. Thanks so much for implementing my last request, and I am happy with your choice of prose for the 'Posthumous reception' section. Thanks for that suggestion. I have some more content that I would appreciate if you could also add to the page, as follows:
 * Please add a new section called "Artistic philosophy". I hope you agree that it is important to have Rhoades philosophy included in the article to better understand him as an artist. I think the best place to put this section is after the "Career" section, and before the "Personal life" section. Please add the following to the new section:
 * Rhoades believed that his body of work was one unified whole, saying "For one thing, I don't understand my works as being separate from one another. There are a few breaks, but I basically understand them as one piece. In order to see one work, you have to look back in reference to the others." He thought of his work as an ongoing project to which he always had the option of adding additional objects, including oriental carpets, dream catchers, neon signs, power cords, and building materials. He also invented products and assembled and re-assembled them into a litany of combinations.  He dealt with many issues of contemporary culture, including racial and gender stereotypes, politics, religion, sex, consumerism, culture and creativity.


 * The second new section I would like added is "Selected posthumous exhibitions." I think this is best placed after the "Selected Installations" section and should be just a bullet-point list, as follows:
 * 2007 Black Pussy, David Zwirner, New York, NY
 * 2007 Multiples (Sculptures 1993-1998), El Sourdog Hex, Berlin, Germany
 * 2010 1:12 Perfect World, Hauser & Wirth London, London, England
 * 2010 Peter Bonde & Jason Rhoades: Half Snowball, Andersens Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark
 * 2013 Jason Rhoades, Four Roads, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA (Travelling Exhibition)
 * 2013 NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, New Museum, New York NY
 * 2014 Jason Rhoades: Perfect Process [part of Oracular/Vernacular], PARADISE / A Space for Screen Addiction, LECLERE- Maison de Ventes, Marseilles, France
 * 2014 Jason Rhoades, Four Roads, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
 * 2014 PeaRoeFoam, David Zwirner, New York NY
 * 2015 Jason Rhoades: Multiple Deviations, The Rose Museum of Art, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
 * 2015 Jason Rhoades, Four Roads, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England
 * 2016 Co-thinkers, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
 * 2016 Bliss, Nahmad Projects, London, UK
 * 2016 Defining Sculpture, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo NY
 * 2017 Jason Rhoades, The Brant Foundation, Greenwich CT
 * 2017 Jason Rhoades: Installations, 1994-2006, Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA
 * 2017 The Everywhere Studio, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami FL
 * 2018 The Way Things Go, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN
 * 2019 Tijuanatanjierchandelier, David Zwirner, New York NY
 * 2020 (Self) Portraits: Portraits & Self-Portraits Made by Artists for Parkett since 1984, Parkett Space, Zurich, Switzerland
 * 2022 Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It's Kept, Whitney Museum of American Art', New York NY

Thanks so much, Stewart for HW (talk) 18:53, 28 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi @Stewart for HW. I took care of the latter. I think artistic philosophy probably needs to be a little more accessible to the lay reader. I feel like maybe the works as part of a whole could go in an existing section and I'm not sure inventing products is clear. Is there more context? Dealing with contemporary issues is fine and once we sort this, I'll happily add that. Thoughts? Star   Mississippi  20:27, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi . This is Maddy. Thanks so much for adding the "Selected posthumous exhibitions" section. Since I am taking over for Stewart, and there is a discussion about what our next steps for the article should be, I can't weigh in right now on what I would like to see for the "Artistic philosophy" section at the moment. I just didn’t want too much time to go by until I said thank you. Maddy at H&#38;W (talk) 11:27, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
 * You're welcome @Maddy at H&W. Always happy to help either you or @Stewart for HW. Have a great day. Star   Mississippi  12:09, 21 September 2023 (UTC)