Jeremy Fish / El-P - Listen and Learn @ Joshua Liner Gallery

Joshua Liner Gallery is pleased to present Listen and Learn, an exhibition of new works by the San Francisco-based artist Jeremy Fish. This is Fish's second solo show with the gallery.

With its graphic style of bold lines, bizarro characters, and cartoon colors, Jeremy Fish's art naturally lends itself to storytelling. In an unabashed celebration of this folk art form, Listen and Learn puts stories and storytellers front and center as Fish demonstrates the enduring appeal of storytelling in popular culture. The exhibition features assorted tales from a wide swath of contemporary life—including from artists, skateboarders, rappers, athletes, a stripper, a cop, and a historian—which Fish has reinterpreted in lovingly realized painted works. Rendered in acrylic on hand-cut wood panels, these thirty "story paintings" are accompanied by audio recordings of the source tales recounted by the original storytellers, available to gallery visitors on MP3 players and headphones mounted next to each work.

For this impressive project, Fish gathered a selection of friends and acquaintances whose rich lives have engendered no end of interesting tales. Stories from the likes of Snoop Dogg, Aesop Rock, Ron English, Mike Giant, El-P, Mars-1 are just a few of the 30 stories included in the show.

This video features an excerpt of the story from El-P.

See Fish's complete story this month at Joshua Liner Gallery in NYC. 'Listen and Learn' opening reception party on Thursday June 23rd from 6-9pm.

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• Jeremy Fish
• El-P
• Joshua Liner Gallery
• Fine Art
• Galleries
• Chelsea
• New York City
• NYC
• San Francisco
• Hip Hop

[Likeafoxfilms]

That clip with no context is pretty damn funny... I hope it's supposed to be.

[Likeafoxfilms]

Hah!

[mpchead621]

@synthburn it yields a lot of way to your interpretation... i thought he was saying they were going to rob him or jump him or something, and its from when he was younger

[synthburn]

wtf is he talking about, why would a bell be a scary sound? why the faces of the kids on the outside, i wish i understood

[jkalams2]

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