ARE WE DOWNHEARTED / NO!NO!NO!

Jim Christensen

ARE WE DOWNHEARTED / NO!NO!NO!, 2018

Sign paint on wood
Diptych, each 18 inch diameter x 1 inch deep
Retail Value $3,200 / Starting Bid $1,300
Courtesy of the Artist and Electric Works
SOLD

 

​Jim Christensen's work reflects upon the history and politics embedded in the material culture of labor and craftsmanship. His recent work references a number of visual and textual sources from the earlier part of the twentieth-century, a time marked by rising industrialization, labor disputes, assembly-line production, the advent of prohibition, and international conflict. All of his work is marked by an intentional hand-made quality he refers to as “homespun.” As such, he's intending to pay homage to America’s complicated history of working-class immigrant labor and point to the inherent value of the individual’s unique contribution to the whole.