Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Jarrett Key

Jarrett Key (b. 1990) lives and works in Providence, RI. Key is a recent MFA graduate from RISD Painting. Key is one of Forbes’ 30 under 30 for Art and Style 2020. Key’s practice embodies several modes of production in one frame. Through form, image, and material, the objects they make integrate a sculpture, painting, and performance practice. Excavating lost stories and the oral histories that define their upbringing in rural Alabama, Key’s work seeks to criticize those historical conditions that are the seeds of contemporary issues in their life, while creating spaces that celebrate beauty, joy and survival.

Key has been featured in exhibitions and residencies at 1969 Gallery, Fierman Gallery, the RISD Museum, La MaMa Galleria, The Columbus Museum, Gallery 67, Swiss House/MGLC, Galerija Kresija, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art, New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Caelum Gallery, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Outlet Fine Art, Former Pfizer Pharmaceutical Factory, Secret Dungeon, La Maison D’Art, Shanghai Theater Academy, and East Meet West Gallery, among others.

Key’s work is in the collections of the The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection, the Columbus Museum, Brown University, RISD Special Collection, the Schomburg Center, the Museum of Modern Art Library, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art Library, among other institutions. The Hair Painting Series series has been featured at the Studio Museum in Harlem and at the Harlem Arts Festival in Marcus Garvey Park.

2019, Silkscreen and Cement on Paper
Collaboration with Merrick Adams
ESP Slab 1 2018 40” x 30” Silkscreen on Cement
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  1. […] Jarrett Key joined us in August from Providence, Rhode Island. At the time, he had just closed a group show in Chelsea and was in the midst of his last week of another group in Tribeca. He told us that he’d been enjoying picking wildflowers all summer as well as painting them outdoors. His paintings have featured bucolic scenes and black people surrounded by flowers. This new part of his practice in which he picks flowers has made him rethink land stewardship and ownership and has prompted him to invite others to come along and pick flowers with him while he paints them in oils. To hear more about this and other work, listen to the complete interview. […]

  2. […] Jarrett Key joined us in August from Providence, Rhode Island. At the time, he had just closed a group show in Chelsea and was in the midst of his last week of another group in Tribeca. He told us that he’d been enjoying picking wildflowers all summer as well as painting them outdoors. His paintings have featured bucolic scenes and black people surrounded by flowers. This new part of his practice in which he picks flowers has made him rethink land stewardship and ownership and has prompted him to invite others to come along and pick flowers with him while he paints them in oils. To hear more about this and other work, listen to the complete interview. […]

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