Timeline
8 Dec 2022 - 3 Jan 2023
Jonathan Edelhuber (b.1984), a Nashville-based artist, combines his love for literature and art. Known for his pop sensibility, his paintings serve as a metaphorical journal entry, as he includes contemporary subjects as a way of “bookmarking” time and thereby signifying the artist’s place along a linear and progressive timeline - both metaphorical and personal in nature. Inspired by Cy Twombly’s incorporation of literature and poetry in his practice, there is a commonality and a shared love for surfaces, line, and colour. Edelhuber accompanies his flattened, cartoon-like figures with short, evocative captions, often taken from a variety of environmental sources-poetry, hearsay, and song lyrics. This exhibition, entitled Timeline, is an example of the artist’s obsessive behaviour when describing his love for art history books, translating directly into his subject matter. Exhibited alongside the Stacks of Art Books series is Skulls - a unique and ongoing series borne out of the pandemic. The artist states that “we’ll live and we'll die and there's so much beauty in between”, inferencing the cyclical nature of life. Edelhuber purports to draw content from his everyday experiences, previously having been described as conceiving his own experiences as pseudo-universal.
About the Artist
Jonathan Edelhuber an Arkansas native, earned a B.F.A. with an emphasis on Graphic Design from Harding University. He is a self-taught painter and sculptor who currently lives and works in Clarksville, Tennessee. He has had solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, London, New York, Geneva, Portland, Melbourne, and Nashville. Edelhuber has participated in art fairs such as Art Central, Hong Kong (2022, 2021), Untitled Art Fair, Miami (2021), Expo Chicago Online (2021), Art021, Shanghai (2020), Art Los Angeles Contemporary, San Francisco (2019), NADA NY, New York (2018), and Fresh Paint Art Fair, Tel Aviv (2017). Working primarily in oil and acrylic, Edelhuber’s paintings, drawings, and sculptures meld elements of modernist motifs. Often incorporating stylized text, and occasionally using non-traditional supports (quilts, for example), Edelhuber explores the interaction of fine art and design.
Read more
