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John Michael Byrd explores the intersection of queer identity, childhood nostalgia, and southern-ness by centrifuging absurd, poetic, and emotional images. These objects, meshed together, create a new super object that is more than the sum of its parts. What do you get when you mix southern expectations of gender with a dash of cartoons, kitsch, an affinity for “girly things”, and that deviled egg dish that’s served at Sunday School Church dinners? While you’d expect these objects to implode with their contrasting symbolism, oddly they complete one another. Much like people, they are made up of contradictions and invalidations, glued together with a dab of humor.
John Michael Byrd’s work is focused on absurdity and the uncanny, in an attempt to resolve the gap between the artificial and the real, juxtaposing appropriated imagery in various media. John Michael works as an Academic Advisor at SVA and is constantly painting, writing and reading Tarot cards in his spare time.
Byrd's work will be on view in the Tyler Art Gallery exhibition She is on Her Way.
Sweet Road
Oswego
NY
13126
USA
