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JESSICA DIAMOND: WHEEL OF LIFE
JUL 14, 2023–JAN 05, 2025
The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden presents the largest museum installation to date by American Conceptual artist Jessica Diamond. Wheel Of Life fills the Hirshhorn’s second-floor inner-circle galleries with 15 text-and-image-based artworks to highlight the inventive nature of the artist’s practice.
Diamond emerged in New York’s downtown art scene in the 1980s. Adopting language as her primary medium, the artist critiques contemporary American life, particularly commercialism, corporate culture, and media. Literature also serves as a continual touchstone, with references in Wheel Of Life to Henry David Thoreau’s Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854), Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland (1865), and James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922). She presents 13 new wall drawings in dialogue with two preexisting works to reveal, in what she refers to as “poetical texts” and symbols, her meditation on spending more than 40 years as a working artist. The artist joins Laurie Anderson and Barbara Kruger in presenting text-based work made for the Museum.
Diamond’s exhibition is also the subject of a suite of videos embedded in the Museum’s award-winning self-guiding smartphone platform, Hirshhorn Eye (Hi) . Designed to enrich Wheel Of Life for broad audiences, these new Hi shorts are voiced by individuals of many ages. Hi activates the Museum’s second-floor inner-circle galleries by prompting engagement with the artist’s richly coded self-reflections, inviting visitors to linger and share their reflections on @Hirshhorn.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jessica Diamond was born in 1957 in New York City, where she continues to live and work. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 1979 and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University in 1981. Diamond has appeared in many international exhibitions, including the Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France (2015); Sonsbeek 9, Arnhem, the Netherlands (2001); and Aperto, Venice Biennale, Italy (1993). Solo exhibitions include El Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain (2011); Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada (2002); and Stedelijk Museum Het Domein, Sittard, the Netherlands (1999). The artist participated in Infotainment, a traveling exhibition at Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, and other venues (1985), and the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City (1991). Diamond is the recipient of several awards, including the National Endowment for the Arts Award in 1989, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship Award in 2000, and the Anonymous Was A Woman Award in 2004.
Photo captured from a meadow a few miles north of the town of Anchor Bay. Mendocino County. Late March 2013.
This is in my Grandfather's house. I was walking past his bedroom when I saw this mirror. While everyone was outside, I sneaked in with my camera and took this. I hate how it's crooked, though.
Fire in the Bell. Another in my rattle can self portrait series. This one was very tricky to get it to look like I was inside the glass bell.
Speed Edit can be seen here:
I just started my little documentary-series, documenting my view of the life in the streets of Drammen, Norway.
This is what I see.
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I swear it.
For now anyway... I swear I'm not that vain. I was just really super tired & had a hard time staying awake, so I took pictures... it was actually kinda fun. Dangerous no doubt, but very, very fun! Don't drive with anyone if you do this... the passenger will become very upset w/ you. You will swerve, a lot. You might get scared... but please, remain calm... that will make for a better picture. If you must take the photos with a passenger with you, then warn them, maybe even get them to sign a waiver stating that they will not stop you from taking anymore pictures while driving... I dunno, just a thought. Good luck out there.. And remember, be safe, where ur safety belt? Just kidding, seriously, buckle up tight- there are some crazies out there...
Oh, & watch out for Cops, they probably wouldn't agree with this activity, photography & driving.
Shot this looking at glass mirrored window .
Atlantic City
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I took this at the Kilnhurst Hooton Lodge Car Show. The steel city cruises 35th rod run. It was the American hot rod and muscle car show.We had a bit of fun taking these reflections in the chrome on the cars.
These 3 girls are so bored and lonely they can camwhore all day long.
A boring and nothing to do day we decided to walk around Marina South
I'm a big fan of personal projects. As cheesy as it may be I have an on going project called "Self Reflection". It helps me look around my surroundings for interesting opportunities.
We found this giant kaleidoscope at the Natural History and Science Museum in Dallas, always wanted to be in one of these!
Have to come back next year and really experiment, but this shot was the coolest of those I took today...she moved, which gives her a mannequin look, whereas I was trying to be dead still.
Kinda frightening to see yourself from every which way!!