DIMENSIONS 19" x 18.5" MEDIUM Acrylic and archival pigment print on Hanhemuhle museum etching paper
Hand-embellished series of 20 + 3APs + 2PPs, 2021
Signed, dated and numbered by the artist on front
In his new hand-embellished series, Escape, Royal Jarmon has created 20 unique scenes that typify his exploration of fire escape as legendary element of New York City architecture. Objects in the foreground come alive, becoming the fixation of our daydreams, portals through which we escape, while the backgrounds remain deliberately hazy. The act of creation is itself an avenue to freedom; in his body of work, Jarmon has experimented with abstracted, flattened versions of maps of the United States and NASCAR vehicles, demonstrating an ongoing examination of psychological and material relations. And perhaps this, the opportunity to look at things differently, is the best escape of all.
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