A square, red-orange catalogue cover with a royal-blue checkerboard pattern overlayed. Two hand-drawn butterflies with kissing figures appear on the top-left and bottom-right quadrants, on top of the checkerboard. The top reads "Jonathan Lyndon Chase" and "Big Wash." The bottom reads "2021 Wet Dry, 2021 Clean Soiled" and "The Fabric Workshop and Museum"

Jonathan Lyndon Chase: Big Wash

Description

Jonathan Lyndon Chase is a Philadelphia-based visual artist whose drawings, paintings, sculpture, video and sound works focus primarily on Black, queer domestic intimacy. This softcover exhibition catalogue was published on the occasion of Big Wash, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition resulting from new work created during their 2019-2020 residency at FWM.

This book features photographs, sketches, poetry, and short fiction exploring kinship, nostalgia and intimacy by contributing writers Yolanda Wisher, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Meg Onli and Meg Pendoley, noor ibn najam, and jamal rashad.

Published by FWM, 2021
Softcover, 100 pages
Designed by Rush Jackson
Edited by FWM Curator Karen Patterson

The catalogue includes a foreword from FWM Executive Director Christina Vassallo, an interview between Jonathan Lyndon Chase and Curator Karen Patterson, as well as contributions from writers Yolanda Wisher, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Meg Onli and Meg Pendoley, noor ibn najam, and jamal rashad.

About The Exhibition

An interior image with black and white checkered floors and blue walls with a variety of paintings and objects hung and leaned against it. In the foreground, a figurative soft sculpture resembling a Black person in a black dress stands upright. Behind them, a clothesline in the background hangs a series of matching blue and red boxers.

Jonathan Lyndon Chase: Big Wash

January 5–June 20, 2021

For Big Wash, artist Jonathan Lyndon Chase turns their attention to the laundromat as a site that is at once private and public. Through paintings, sculpture, and newly produced screenprinted textiles, Chase explores themes of Black, queer domestic intimacy, eroticism, nostalgia, and tenderness.

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