Artist: Jamian Juliano-Villani
Exhibition title: Let’s Kill Nicole
Venue: Massimo De Carlo, London, UK
Date: June 21 – September 21, 2019
Photography: Todd-White Art Photography / all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Massimo De Carlo, Milan/London/Hong Kong
Massimo De Carlo London is pleased to present Let’s Kill Nicole, an exhibition by the New York based American artist Jamian Juliano-Villani.
Let’s Kill Nicole alludes to a friend, most likely in grade school, who makes a violently irrational suggestion, such as killing a bully or a friend. That suggestion is the vortex of the show.
Overtaci, a deer-cum-human figure, finds its origin from the obsessive work of a Danish outsider artist, Ovartaci. Ovartaci spent majority of her life as a patient mainly hidden in the Risskov Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, Denmark. Juliano-Villani reimagines the artist’s muse as a teenage American lacrosse player framed by a parents’ camera lens. The stale obsessive humanoid is frozen in activity, with the athletic shorts rolled up all the way up.
When a veteran retires they are usually given a ceremonial water salute with firehoses and jets, saluting them for their work. In two paintings, Big Amy and one small – Little Amy, a mirage vision of Amy Winehouse as a child is airbrushed in a desert, an ocean, being saluted by dolphins and lizards. The lowly beach style of boardwalk t-shirts and trinkets is used to memorialize Amy. She is a blip of a cheap angel in British culture.
Let’s Kill Nicole focuses on banal drama. There is irrational and melodramatic behaviour; a guilty dog with a bagel knife in his mouth, the button dancer Kazuo Ohno reminiscing over old CDs, and a naive monster truck mural trying to break out of the facade of the gallery. This is Juliano-Villani’s second show with the gallery.
Jamian Juliano-Villani was born in 1986 in Newark, New Jersey. She currently lives and works in New York. Solo exhibitions include: Ten Pound Hand, JTT, New York, NY, US (2018); Sincerely, Tony, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, I (2017); Hydra Workshop, Hydra, GR (2017); The World’s Greatest Planet on Earth, Studio Voltaire, London, UK (2016). Group shows include: Trouble in Paradise, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL (2019); Low Form, MAXXI, Rome, I (2018); Infinite Blue, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, US (2018); Homage to Colin De Land, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy (2017); Living Apart Together: Recent Acquisitions from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, US (2017); Park Nights 2016, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (2016); Flatlands, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, US (2016).
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Let’s Kill Nicole, 2019, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, London
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Let’s Kill Nicole, 2019, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, London
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Let’s Kill Nicole, 2019, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, London
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Let’s Kill Nicole, 2019, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, London
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Let’s Kill Nicole, 2019, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, London
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Let’s Kill Nicole, 2019, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, London
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Let’s Kill Nicole, 2019, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, London
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Let’s Kill Nicole, 2019, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, London
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Let’s Kill Nicole, 2019, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, London
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Let’s Kill Nicole, 2019, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, London
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Let’s Kill Nicole, 2019, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, London
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Let’s Kill Nicole, 2019, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, London
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Let’s Kill Nicole, 2019, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, London
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Let’s Kill Nicole, 2019, exhibition view, Massimo De Carlo, London
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Big Amy, 2019, Ex. unique, Acrylic on canvas, 243.8 × 304.8 × 3.8 cm / 96 × 120 × 1 1/2 inches
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Big Amy, 2019, Ex. unique, Acrylic on canvas, 243.8 × 304.8 × 3.8 cm / 96 × 120 × 1 1/2 inches
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Constructive Living, 2019, Ex. unique, Acrylic on canvas, 127 × 188 × 3.8 cm / 50 × 74 × 1 1/2 inches
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Constructive Living, 2019, Ex. unique, Acrylic on canvas, 127 × 188 × 3.8 cm / 50 × 74 × 1 1/2 inches
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Pweez, No steppy!, 2019, Ex. unique, Acrylic on canvas, 182.9 × 243.8 × 3.8 cm / 72 × 96 × 1 1/2 inches
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Pweez, No steppy!, 2019, Ex. unique, Acrylic on canvas, 182.9 × 243.8 × 3.8 cm / 72 × 96 × 1 1/2 inches
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Ovartaci’s Daughter, 2019, Ex. unique, Acrylic on canvas, 182.9 × 243.8 × 3.8 cm / 72 × 96 × 1 1/2 inches
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Ovartaci’s Daughter, 2019, Ex. unique, Acrylic on canvas, 182.9 × 243.8 × 3.8 cm / 72 × 96 × 1 1/2 inches
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Let’s Kill Nicole, 2019, Ex. unique, crylic on canvas, 243.4 × 182.9 × 3.8 cm / 96 × 72 × 1 1/2 inches
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Let’s Kill Nicole, 2019, Ex. unique, crylic on canvas, 243.4 × 182.9 × 3.8 cm / 96 × 72 × 1 1/2 inches
Jamian Juliano-Villani, The Gay Ghost, 2019, Ex. unique, Acrylic on canvas, 213.4 × 243.8 × 3.8 cm / 84 × 96 × 1 1/2 inches
Jamian Juliano-Villani, The Gay Ghost, 2019, Ex. unique, Acrylic on canvas, 213.4 × 243.8 × 3.8 cm / 84 × 96 × 1 1/2 inches
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Little Amy, 2019, Ex. unique, Acrylic on canvas, 108 × 121.9 × 3.8 cm / 42 1/2 × 48 × 1 1/2 inches
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Little Amy, 2019, Ex. unique, Acrylic on canvas, 108 × 121.9 × 3.8 cm / 42 1/2 × 48 × 1 1/2 inches
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Crunchie Boy, My Son, 2019, Ex. unique, Acrylic on canvas, 182.9 × 243.8 × 3.8 cm / 72 × 96 × 1 1/2 inches
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Crunchie Boy, My Son, 2019, Ex. unique, Acrylic on canvas, 182.9 × 243.8 × 3.8 cm / 72 × 96 × 1 1/2 inches
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Breakfast at Triple Kia Omega, 2019, Ex. unique, Acrylic on canvas, 243.8 × 213.4 × 3.8 cm / 96 × 84 × 1 1/2 inches
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Breakfast at Triple Kia Omega, 2019, Ex. unique, Acrylic on canvas, 243.8 × 213.4 × 3.8 cm / 96 × 84 × 1 1/2 inches
Jamian Juliano-Villani, My art show at Massimo De Carlo, 2019, Ex. unique, Acrylic on canvas, 122 × 101.6 × 3.8 cm / 48 × 40 × 1 1/2 inches
Jamian Juliano-Villani, My art show at Massimo De Carlo, 2019, Ex. unique, Acrylic on canvas, 122 × 101.6 × 3.8 cm / 48 × 40 × 1 1/2 inches
Jamian Juliano-Villani, In the Garage, 2019, Ex. unique, Electrical motor, metal, plastic, rubber and soft-toy, 35 × 90 × 30 cm / 13 4/5 × 35 2/5 × 11 4/5 inches, Dimensions variable, Artwork secured to plinth measuring: 97.5 (H) x 111 (L) x 47 (W) cm
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Passion For The Road, 2018, Ex. unique, Acrylic on canvas, PetChatz HD Wifi Two-Way Audio & Video Camera & Treat Dispenser, 183 × 239 × 2.5 cm / 72 × 94 × 1 inches
Jamian Juliano-Villani, Passion For The Road, 2018, Ex. unique, Acrylic on canvas, PetChatz HD Wifi Two-Way Audio & Video Camera & Treat Dispenser, 183 × 239 × 2.5 cm / 72 × 94 × 1 inches
Jamian Juliano-Villani, What I know about the Revolutionary War, 2019, Ex. unique, Acrylic on canvas, 101.6 × 76.2 × 3.8 cm / 40 × 30 × 1 1/2 inches
Jamian Juliano-Villani, What I know about the Revolutionary War, 2019, Ex. unique, Acrylic on canvas, 101.6 × 76.2 × 3.8 cm / 40 × 30 × 1 1/2 inches