Joe
Andoe
Jubilee
City
May 17 - August 15, 2008
“ ‘Jubilee
City’ was a discount store in east Tulsa, next to Jubilee Liquors
and across from the Guitar Shack and between Moscowitz Furniture and the
Admiral Twin drive-in.
The lettering was colorful, festive and jubilant, but it wasn’t
so much ‘discount’ as it was cheap; with the ideal that its
target audience would be persuaded to shop there because it would be fun
and they could save. But even as a little kid I remember how disappointed
I was when we walked in there the first time and it was just another store,
with no circus and no rides…
I felt duped.
And ever since I looked for what grandiosity was covering up, and that’s
usually something that is not very grand at all.
I never went back there. But I came from their target demographic and
we all were so far east we weren’t supposed to know the difference;
because those who had more lived on the other side.
So there was buoyancy and some normal satisfaction -dissatisfaction with
what we had. We just wanted what everyone wants: 30% more.
I didn’t title anything in this show because I don’t want
to direct anyone to look for anything. I wanted the content to be equal
to the effort, and to the proportion with my intention to be timeless,
and kind of actual, so it could reflect like a mirror, and hopefully be
full spectrum without explanation. Even with oil paint’s nature
of looking old when it’s new, no matter what.
I am playing straight and plain like before disco, and I am looking at
the whole, like a wide American opera on the stage that’s a landscape
with actors and props and even a chorus- chorale- corral- where the horses
are many but they are similar and they are witness to what turned out
to be red stated, workaday, and hard wired for a thrill, no matter how
cheap, because it should be fun to save.” Joe Andoe
This will be Joe Andoe’s fifth solo show with the Earl McGrath Gallery. Joe Andoe has been exhibiting worldwide for over twenty years and his work can be found in numerous public and private collections; including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.
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