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.