JONATHAN SELIGER
Jonathan Seliger’s reverence for everyday objects places him squarely in the Pop Art Tradition, with an intricate fabrication technique that calls to mind the West Coast’s finish fetish movement as well as postmodern concern with simulacra.
After graduation of colleage Seliger started his artistic career with an art critique and a freelance curator. In the late 80’s he supported a particular artist at a gallery in New York.
Then he started to reconstruct every day objects to turn into a conceptual artist. His productions are intelligible and iconic, reflected by the essence of pop art in celebrity brand shopping bags, Chinese takeout containers, light bulbs, and milk cartoons.
WORKS
Complementary, 60.2 x 41 x 12.8 cm, oil, acrylic, alkyd, modeling paste on canvas over coroplast, 2021
Mirror Bulb, 15.3×10.25×10.25cm, automotive enamel on bronze, copper plated brass, stainless steel finial, 2019
Hinomaru with Pleats, 9.8 x 38.5 cm, acrylic, modeling paste, synthetic varnish on canvas, painted nails, 2021
World Premiere, 46.1 x 41 x 11.5 cm, oil, alkyd, acrylic, modeling paste on canvas, 2020
Carrots and Sticks, 64.1 x 41 x 12.8 cm, oil, acrylic, alkyd, modeling paste on canvas over coroplast, 2021
BIOGRAPHY
1955 Born in Brooklyn, NY 1978 B.A., State University of New York at Binghamton
PAST EXHIBITIONS
1996 Solo Exhibition at Studio La Citta in Verona, Italy 1999 Solo exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery, USA 2000 Solo Exhibition at Studio La Citta and Jack Shainman Gallery, USA 2001 Solo Exhibition at Angles Gallery in Los Angeles, USA 2002 Solo Exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery, USA 2003 Solo Exhibition at McClain Gallery in Houston, USA 2004 Solo Exhibition at Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut (travelled to Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York) 2005 Solo Exhibition at Galerie Sho Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Japan 2005 Solo Exhibition at Barbara Krakow Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2006 Solo Exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery, USA 2010 Solo Exhibition at Angles Gallery and Jack Shainman Gallery, USA 2012 Solo Exhibition at Galerie Sho Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Japan 2017 Solo Exhibition at McClain Gallery in Houston, USA 2020 Group Show at Art TNZ at Sho+1 booth in Tokyo, Japan 2021 Group Show at Art Fair Tokyo 2021 at Sho+1 booth in Tokyo, Japan 2022 Group Show at Art Fair Tokyo 2022 at Sho+1 booth in Tokyo, Japan
