Through January 11, Hyde Park Art Center
Omar is one of my favorite contemporary ceramic artists. This small show features a bad-ass ceramic bust of Jack Johnson, and an absolutely awesome urn illustrating the song “Regulate” by Nate Dogg and Warren G. Don’t miss it.
Primarily known for artwork that focuses on the rise and fall of contemporary popular icons like Shaquille O’Neal and Mike Tyson, Omar Vera has taken his interests in history and design to a whole new digital dimension with the moving image in Cold Eels and Distant Thoughts. The exhibition will feature an animated map work and an installation that shift our notion of ethnic and geographic boundaries, in addition to stoneware sculptures including a life-size bust of boxing champion Jack Johnson, and an urn illustrating the song “Regulate” by rap artists Nate Dogg and Warren G.
The title of the exhibition references an early 1900’s interview with champion boxer Jack Johnson, whom Vera depicts in a ceramic bust in the show. The interviewer questioned Johnson as to why white women were attracted to black men. Jack Johnson replied, “Because we eat cold eels and think distant thoughts,” which was his both ironic and poetic way of pointing out the ignorance of the question. Vera hopes to encapsulate the sentiment of Johnson’s famous remark in this new body of work.
Omar Vera has exhibited at the Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, and Gallery 2 and the AIC Base Space at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, among other venues. He received a B.F.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle, and an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Vera taught the Ceramics Sculpture class at the Art Center from 2006-2007 and currently lives in Richmond, Virginia.
Regulaaaatoooors! Mount up!!
Might I add, “Chordz, stringz, we bringz…melodeeez.”
Wow. I need to see this urn.
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