Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror is organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Vogelman, Exhibition Assistant, in Philadelphia, and Lauren Young, Curatorial Assistant, in New York. and Katherine Sachs Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Scott Rothkopf, Senior Deputy Director and Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, with Sarah B. The organizing curators are Carlos Basualdo, Keith L. This exhibition is organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Taken together, they provide an immersive exploration of the many phases, treasures, and mysteries of a radical, enduring, and still-evolving career. Individually, each gallery focuses on a particular aspect of Johns’s thought and work through the lens of different themes, processes, images, mediums, and even emotional states. Organized in largely chronological order, the retrospective presents pairs of related galleries-one in each city-that offer varied perspectives on the artist’s turns of mind. This unique dual structure draws on the artist’s lifelong fascination with mirroring and doubles, so that each half of the exhibition echoes and reflects the other. Conceived as a whole but displayed in two distinct parts, the exhibition appears simultaneously here at the Whitney and at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, two institutions with which Johns has had long-standing relationships.
Featuring his most iconic works along with many others shown for the first time, it comprises a broad range of paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures from 1954 to today across two sites. Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror is the most comprehensive retrospective ever devoted to Johns’s art. His profoundly generative practice helped spark movements including Pop art, Minimalism, and Conceptualism, among others, and has inspired successive generations of artists to this day. Johns’s early use of common objects and motifs, language, and inventive materials and formats upended conventional notions of what an artwork is and can be. He was born in 1930 in Augusta, Georgia spent the majority of his adult life in New York and today lives in Sharon, Connecticut, where, at the age of ninety-one, he remains active in his studio. Jasper Johns currently lives and works in Sharon, Connecticut.Jasper Johns’s groundbreaking work sent shock waves through the art world when it was first shown in the late 1950s, and he has continued to challenge new audiences-and himself-over a career spanning more than sixty-five years.
His work can be found in major museums around the world, including the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis the Art Institute of Chicago the Broad Museum, Los Angeles and the Tate Modern, London, among others. In 1988, he was awarded the Grand Prix at the Venice Biennale, and in 1996 the Museum of Modern Art presented the exhibition, “Jasper Johns: A Retrospective”. In 1977, he was given a comprehensive retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, which again honored him with a retrospective organized in collaboration with the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2020. Johns’ popularity continued to quickly rise, with the Museum of Modern Art purchasing three pieces from that show. He was immediately taken with the paintings, and gave the 28-year-old Johns a show on the spot.
In 1958, noted gallery owner Leo Castelli came across Johns’ work while visiting Robert Rauschenberg’s studio.
His pure sculptures are of such quotidian items such as flashlights, which are sculpted first in wax, and layered with collaged elements such as newsprint before being cast in bronze. Johns has similarly explored these concepts through pure sculpture, and works which incorporate elements of both painting and sculpture. He would continue to mine the meanings of other such notable iconography as targets, numbers, and letters. Lacking the gestural feel of the Abstract Expressionists, Johns let the associations of the flag come to inform the meaning of the work.
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Perhaps most famous among these are his series of American Flag paintings, which he began in 1954 after having a dream that he was painting an American flag. His work takes as its subject simple, easily recognizable icons rendered through such materials as encaustic and plaster. Johns is most closely associated with the Neo-Dada movement, and is often cited as a bridge between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. Upon returning to New York in 1953, he befriended Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham, and John Cage, all of whom would deeply influence Johns’ work. Johns studied at the Parsons School of Design for a semester upon arrival, before serving two years in the army during the Korean War. He briefly studied at the University of South Carolina at Columbia before moving to New York in 1948. Jasper Johns was born on in Augusta, Georgia, and was raised in South Carolina.
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