There’s a second in Jasmine Monsegue‘s Every part That Glitters at CONTROL Gallery in Los Angeles that helped kick off Frieze week that was an awesome reminder of the place she got here from and the place this artwork comes from. The work, Third Coast, and considering of Houston and the place Monsegue was raised inside a Afro-Caribbean, Latinx and African American tradition deeply embedded within the Southern United States, gave context to a few of the extra distinctive aesthetics I had seen over the course of airbrush’s resurgence within the artwork world during the last half decade. That is Houston, the South, and LA multi functional, a rowdy and underground have a look at automotive tradition, lowbrow and DIY vogue.Â
Identified for years as Spacebrat, Jasmine Monsegue had a seductive, maximalist fashion that felt just like the grabbing of recollections right into a cacophony of photos showing on a canvas. What makes this present at CONTROL so fascinating is how she adopts minimalism into a few of her best works. Vanessa and The Pony, specifically, are standouts, exhibiting a misty, virtually legendary method to a salacious subject, within the vein of Jane Dickson. Because the gallery notes, “The Pony depicts an industry-known strip membership in a desolate space of Memphis, Tennessee. The piece is haunting however enchanting; the push-and-pull between smooth blur and clearly rendered, and the brightly coloured constructing towards the darkish and isolate setting, pushes the viewer to really feel the strain that exists in intercourse work.”
This present now has moved Monsegue into a brand new territory, exploring dichotomies and turning into a storyteller whereas creating ghostly, haunting and mysterious works. There may be plenty of glitter which will exist someplace deep in these works, however the delicate methods she approaches them is illuminating. —Evan Pricco
