Solo Exhibition: The Great American Death Machine
Tripp Jakovich
Dates: December 5, 2020 - January 16, 2021
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 5 | 11 AM - 7 PM
Instagram Live Artist Talk: Wednesday, December 9 | 5 PM
“The average American is a psycho-consumer trying to outrun the pain of being a slave to capitalism, and the only way out looks like certain death! Chaos reigns on this fallen realm we call earth and pain is but an essential part of existing in the world. The escape of using vices and exchanging lesser gods for God will never be enough to heal ourselves.”
- Tripp Jakovich
Glass Rice is proud to present The Great American Death Machine, Tripp Jakovich’s debut solo exhibition of multimedia works. He constructs his pieces from found materials gathered from century-old houses, dated magazines, and artwork created in his youth as a means to draw on past beliefs and established systems. Jakovich recognizes a void that exists in the American soul, one that cannot be escaped without making peace with a traumatic past - both our own and that of our nation. His latest body of work is an attempt to confront this darkness to better understand himself and his relationship with the United States.
Recreated within the gallery is The American Screen, which is a constant cacophony of televisions playing. This installation is an embodiment of the dizzying bedlam that Jakovich’s own art induces. As he creates surrounded by screens, relics, sounds, and lights, the various waveforms begin to harmonize to create a beautiful synchronicity. As within his work, it is through this serendipitous, enchanting chaos that both the artist and the viewer can begin to discern the meaning through the madness.
Through collage, oil painting, sewing, and installation, the artist explores horrific events, hidden truths and unsettling realities from American history to provide a crude roadmap for the viewer to decode. This can be seen in pieces such as Director’s Cut, where the artist juxtaposes prominent Black figures in American history with the Elephant Man, highlighting the disturbing reality that the Elephant Man has more name recognition than Frederick Douglass or Marcus Garvey. In unlearning the revisionist history that has indoctrinated our education system, Jakovich sheds fractals of light on a truer big picture. “Because without confronting these genocidal tendencies and bloodlust within our history, we will never escape the dull, constant, static-drone hum deep within us that is: The Great American Death Machine.”
Tripp Jakovich
Dates: December 5, 2020 - January 16, 2021
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 5 | 11 AM - 7 PM
Instagram Live Artist Talk: Wednesday, December 9 | 5 PM
“The average American is a psycho-consumer trying to outrun the pain of being a slave to capitalism, and the only way out looks like certain death! Chaos reigns on this fallen realm we call earth and pain is but an essential part of existing in the world. The escape of using vices and exchanging lesser gods for God will never be enough to heal ourselves.”
- Tripp Jakovich
Glass Rice is proud to present The Great American Death Machine, Tripp Jakovich’s debut solo exhibition of multimedia works. He constructs his pieces from found materials gathered from century-old houses, dated magazines, and artwork created in his youth as a means to draw on past beliefs and established systems. Jakovich recognizes a void that exists in the American soul, one that cannot be escaped without making peace with a traumatic past - both our own and that of our nation. His latest body of work is an attempt to confront this darkness to better understand himself and his relationship with the United States.
Recreated within the gallery is The American Screen, which is a constant cacophony of televisions playing. This installation is an embodiment of the dizzying bedlam that Jakovich’s own art induces. As he creates surrounded by screens, relics, sounds, and lights, the various waveforms begin to harmonize to create a beautiful synchronicity. As within his work, it is through this serendipitous, enchanting chaos that both the artist and the viewer can begin to discern the meaning through the madness.
Through collage, oil painting, sewing, and installation, the artist explores horrific events, hidden truths and unsettling realities from American history to provide a crude roadmap for the viewer to decode. This can be seen in pieces such as Director’s Cut, where the artist juxtaposes prominent Black figures in American history with the Elephant Man, highlighting the disturbing reality that the Elephant Man has more name recognition than Frederick Douglass or Marcus Garvey. In unlearning the revisionist history that has indoctrinated our education system, Jakovich sheds fractals of light on a truer big picture. “Because without confronting these genocidal tendencies and bloodlust within our history, we will never escape the dull, constant, static-drone hum deep within us that is: The Great American Death Machine.”