In Sleep Never Rusts, JPW3 inverts the tried-and-true Rust-Oleum slogan into a conundrum of meaning and materials, with each successive gallery containing divergent bodies of work eliciting contrasting states of mind and sensory reactions. Paintings of infinity-loop buckets full of holes that render them impractical simultaneously revolve endlessly into boundlessness, spinning and rotating around the first space encountered while showing all of their sides but revealing nothing. The metaphor is the artistic process of working through accident and error to find solutions, or conversely, discovering problems in everything, and making art out of that Sisyphean predicament. Rounding a corner, a handmade analog hologram summoning Serena Williams’ power in mid-stroke is seen from both sides, doubled. The participant passes “through” her, momentarily becoming one with the celebrated tennis pro, part of the/her machine. Endless inanimate movement in paint leads to repetition of human motion, very much alive, a surge from one condition to its opposite. Following a course into the South Galleries, viewers encounter supine sarcophagus-like ramp “wedge” sculptures made of layers of melted wax, slowly molting, inert, sepulchral, detaining time and bringing locomotion close to a standstill. Then one enters the last room, a dizzying floor-to-ceiling black and orange wraparound “finish line” that is a zine (the earliest and a continuing materialization of JPW3’s output) writ large on the walls, composed of 8.5×11″ tartan photocopies of a homemade plastic trash bag with a checkered flag motif, conflating the sign of finishing and victory with its mundane source, “ending” but also rotating the observer back out into this undeniably multi-disciplinary, playfully confounding experience. The combined parts constitute a trip into perceptual and mental landscapes that are inventive, humorous, and allusive, as well as slightly disquieting and destabilizing.
ABOUT JPW3:
JPW3 (b. 1981) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. He received his MFA from the University of Southern California in 2012, and his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005. JPW3’s practice lies in experiments continuously relating found, fabricated, and raw elements and the transfer of energy between them. In doing so, the lexicon of images and materials commonly found throughout his work include wax and the tools used to melt it, heat or fire, engines and the fuel needed to maintain them, as well as associated hues such as oranges, yellows, and reds. Recent solo exhibitions include Night Gallery (Los Angeles), Michael Jon & Alan (Miami), Martos Gallery (New York), and Galerie Nagel Draxler (Cologne). His upcoming solo exhibition, Sleep Never Rusts, will open at MOCA Tucson (Tucson) in October of 2016. His work has been covered by The Los Angeles Times, Artforum, and The New Yorker, and is held in major international collections.
ABOUT MOCA TUCSON:
Established by artists, MOCA is Tucson's only museum devoted exclusively to contemporary art from Tucson and around the globe. MOCA is committed to thinking globally, acting locally, and engaging with the ethics and aesthetics of contemporary life. Through varied programs, MOCA is Tucson's primary educational resource for contemporary art and maintains a full exhibition, education, and artist-in-residence program.

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