Jeffrey Stubbs

OPENS NOV 21

WIRTH GALLERY, LA

MIXED FEELINGS

Jeffrey Stubbs

ARTIST, DESIGNER / LOS ANGELES, CA

Leftovers

Four Colors, One Drum

Everything Must Go

Soft Goods

Misregistration

Counter Culture

Dust & Ink

Household Names

Receipts

Mixed Feelings (solo)

EXHIBITION INDEX

BIO

Jeffrey Stubbs (b. 1991) is a Los Angeles-based mixed media artist who turns the overlooked objects of everyday life into bright, quietly monumental images. Toothbrushes, takeout containers, folding chairs, parking tickets, half-peeled oranges and tangled phone chargers are the things we handle a hundred times a day without really seeing them. In his work, they become the main characters. Stubbs grew up in the San Fernando Valley and spent his childhood between his mother's print shop and the strip malls of Van Nuys. That upbringing gave him a love of mechanical reproduction and a fascination with the visual clutter of American consumer culture. He studied illustration at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, where he first came across the risograph, a Japanese stencil duplicator originally built for offices and schools. Its grainy textures, misaligned layers and fluorescent soy-based inks became the foundation of his visual language.

Stubbs combines riso prints with collage, acrylic paint, found packaging and hand-cut paper. He often layers a single object across several passes of fluorescent pink, teal, sunflower yellow and federal blue. He keeps the flaws of the process instead of correcting them: shifted colors, uneven ink and visible dust. They give each piece a warmth that sits somewhere between pop art, vintage advertising and a personal diary. "I'm interested in the objects that stay with us without asking for attention," Stubbs says. "A coffee cup on a kitchen counter can say more about a life than a portrait." In recent years his zines and limited-edition prints have circulated through independent art book fairs in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Berlin, earning him a devoted following among collectors and designers. His debut solo exhibition opens on November 21 at Wirth Gallery in Los Angeles. It presents a new body of large-scale riso works and mixed media assemblages that celebrate the poetry of the ordinary.

photo by Bodrey Tappern

Represented by Milk & Henley Studios, NYC.

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