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 south ern 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 C hurch dinners? While you’d expect these objects to implode with their contr asting symbolism, oddly they complete one another. Much like people, they a re made up of contradictions and invalidations, glued together with a dab o f humor.
John Michael Byrd’s work is focused on absurdity and the unc anny, in an attempt to resolve the gap between the artificial and the real, juxtaposing appropriated imagery in various media. John Michael works as a n Academic Advisor at SVA and is constantly painting, writing and reading T arot cards in his spare time.
Byrd's work will be on view in the Tyle r Art Gallery exhibition She is on Her Way.
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