John Y. Wind | Artist
In anticipation of a project I’ll be doing with the Rosenbach Museum & Library next year, I was invited to be a reader on Bloomsday–the day during which James Joyce’s Ulysses takes place. Well, it took a few days of practice to get the flow of the words, and just as long to understand a bit of what I was reading. Here is my two-page bit~ Thanks to the Museum for the honor & the opportunity!
Gallery talk with juror Doug Bucci at Woodmere Art Museum. I appreciate the ‘Dutch’ reference and the opportunity to share about my work~
I know, I match😉 Thanks Woodmere Art Museum for including my Monuments to Everyman in the show! It was a fun, high energy opening day and it’s a rich, diverse, thoughtful show juried by Doug Bucci.
My thanks to Woodmere Art Museum and juror Doug Bucci for including me in this year’s juried summer exhibition!
look//Hyatt Centric Center City Philadelphia presents the next exhibition in its Maker Series, Whiskey Rebellion by John Y Wind…
Many thanks to the Jewish Exponent for this insightful article about Whiskey Rebellion, told through the lens of my own Jewish identity~
My thanks to ABC-7 NYC for this great New York story about my Grand Hotel chandelier jewelry collection. Reimagining, repurposing, and reinventing vintage things is at the heart of my work, both in jewelry and fine art~
https://abc7ny.com/jewelry-waldorf-plaza-hotel-john-wind/12328656/
There’s a new health publication out with the uplifting idea of having an arts page featuring artists’ reflections on wellness and illness. Thank you Modern Luxury / Medicine + Doctors for featuring Cancer Cyborgs, my fever dream meditation on my mother’s death from ovarian cancer in your premier issue. This work lives in my studio and is a daily reminder of the complexity, beauty and pain of life and death…
#artandwellness #cancerart #arttherapy #cyborgs #cancercyborg #feverdream #surrealism #threegraces #lifeandart #ovariancancer #motherandson #phillyartist #phillyart #phillystyle #modernluxury #cancersupportcommunity
Wow, thank you @phillymag ! This is unexpected and sooo appreciated~ #philly #bestofphilly #bestofphilly2022 #phillyartist #commissionportrait #sculptureportrait
Monuments to Everyman~
“I embarked on this project to replace the ‘heroes’ we have historically been offered, high up on marble columns, with more personalized, idiosyncratic monuments. Each column begins with containers emptied of my prescriptions, supplements, cremes, beverages, and mints—from the prosaic to the profound, they mark the passage of time and represent life itself. They are then topped with generic Everyman figures used in architectural models. (While Everywoman figures are also made, I gravitate to the men in a reflective act of self-portraiture). Finally, plaster fills the containers to overflowing, transforming the everyday into Art, subsuming the personal with the universal, and creating a new kind of Monument to Everyman.”
Monuments to Everyman, 2021
Installation View
Dimensions variable, as shown 24 x 36 x24”
