User:Chubbytanuki/Jason villegas

Jason Villegas Born 	1977 Houston, Texas Nationality 	United States Training       #REDIRECT University of Houston, #REDIRECT Rutgers University Movement 	Faux Religion, Ultra Bastard Influenced by 	#REDIRECT Pop Art, #REDIRECT Surrealism, Arte Povera, #REDIRECT Iconography and Iconology He currently lives in #REDIRECT Brooklyn, New York. Villegas received a BFA from the University of Houston, Texas and an MFA from the Mason Gross School of Art at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Jason Villegas' work extends an ongoing narrative about the lifecycle of luxury goods by engaging a complex mythology surrounding an absurd brand of deadly goods known as Ultra Bastard. Villegas' characters and motifs can be seen as wall mural, installation, sculpture, drawing, painting, performance and video. His bright use of color and tactile materials, conceals darker concepts of #REDIRECT Abjection. Villegas' wall mural with video projection, "Celestial Situations" (2006/08), is included in the traveling exhibition,#REDIRECT Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement, organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (#REDIRECT LACMA 2008). His most ambitious show to date,Perspectives: 167 at the Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston (2009), included large soft sculptures, wall installations, fashion inspired animal portraits, and faux-relgious shrines. The works were composed of used clothing and found objects. Selected exhibitions including; The Dams 2 / Las Represas, #REDIRECT Universidad del Sagrado Corazón San Juan, PR (2007); Eyes Wide Open, #REDIRECT El Museo Del Barrio/ART212, New York, NY (2006), Young Latino Artists #10, #REDIRECT Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX (2005), Artadia@Diverseworks, #REDIRECT DiverseWorks (2005), and The Big Show, #REDIRECT Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX (2003). Solo exhibitions include projects at Commerce Street Art Warehouse, Houston, TX; Cactus Bra Space, San Antonio, TX; Plush Gallery, Dallas, TX(2004); Okay Mountain Gallery, Austin, TX (2007); #REDIRECT Receiver Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2008), and most recently Botched Simulacrum, McClain Gallery, Houston TX (2009). External links * artwork images http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonvillegas/sets/ * video clips http://www.youtube.com/user/jasonvillegas * Featured work LA Times http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-ca-chicano6apr06,0,7737991.story Art in America http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_5_95/ai_n25439069/ Glasstire http://glasstire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1847&gtsect=Blogs&gtcat=Capital%20A&Itemid=61 http://glasstire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=228&gtsect=Articles&gtcat=Review http://glasstire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=130&gtsect=Articles&gtcat=Review http://glasstire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1161&gtsect=Articles&gtcat=Feature
 * 1) REDIRECT Jason Villegas is an American fine artist. (born 1977 Houston,TX)