Excited to have JG Thies work included in an exhibition showcasing NFTs at Park House. The exhibition is curated by Muriel Quancard and features works by Bacon Bits Collective, Nancy Baker Cahill, Melanie Clemmons, Zak Loyd, Kevin and Jennifer McCoy, Synchrodogs, JG Thies and Ivona Tau.
Date - April 19-24, 2022
Location - Park House, 100 Highland Park Village, Dallas
Access - Park House members. The holders of a DAF VIP card can attend during event on April 19 at 6 pm
J.G. Thies
Since the early 2000s, Thies has continually explored the boundaries of his multidisciplinary approach to making art that are in turns humorous, critical, political and poetic. Thies’ approach to painting, installation, photography, performance and video are all viewed through a sculptural lens.
In his work, Thies is in dialogue with commonplace and recognizable motifs, questioning and revisiting their intended meanings while creating all new narratives in the process.
For A Little Violence Never Hurt Anyone, 2022 Thies loops a video clip from the Looney Toons cartoon series which treats gun violence with zany exuberance. But, in the post-Virgina Tech, Sandy Hook, Stoneman Douglas, Santa Fe, Umpqua College, Red Lake, Oikos University, West Nikel, Northern Illinois, Santa Monica College world, what was once strangely funny now registers as appallingly macabre.
In the selected clip, the flash bang of the cartoon gun makes a trance like burst of color as the repeated singular note from the orchestra pounds the idea of gunshots into the viewer’s imagination.