Beachside Lonelyhearts April 27th, 2015
***For more information on Pricelist for Canvas Series please contact the Director of Jai & Jai Gallery***
CLICK HERE for Beachside Lonelyhearts Canvas Series CATALOGUE COMING SOON
CLICK HERE FOR JIMENEZ LAI’S PRESS KIT
Beachside Lonelyhearts Press Release
***Photos in Photo Gallery taken by Jesse Hammer & Jacob Comerci***
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BEACHSIDE PILLOW TALK – Artist Conversation between Sylvia Lavin and Jimenez Lai, moderated by Michelle Chang on Youtube. Please click on the links below to view.
Beachside Pillowtalk Part I: Sylvia Lavin, Jimenez Lai, Michelle Chang
Beachside Pillowtalk Part II
Beachside Pillowtalk Part III
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Join us for
BEACHSIDE PILLOWTALK – Artist Conversation between
Jimenez Lai and Sylvia Lavin.
Moderated by Michelle Chang
Saturday, June 20, 2015; 7pm.
We look forward to seeing you that evening!
***Photos in Photo Gallery taken by Jesse Hammer & Jacob Comerci***
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Jai & Jai Gallery is proud to present ‘Beachside Lonelyhearts’ presented by Jimenez Lai.
Please join us for the Opening Reception on
Saturday, May 9, 2015; 8pm-11pm.
We all look forward to spending the evening with you!
***Limited Edition products will also be available for purchase at the opening reception and Jai & Jai Gallery webshop.***
Special Credit & Thank You to Jacob Comerci and Jesse Hammer of Bureau Spectacular,
Hillary Bretcko and Andrew Akins
Special Thank you to:
Music provided by Scott Ferrara
Drinks provided by Fair Vodka
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Los Angeles, CA – Jai & Jai Gallery is pleased to present Beachside Lonelyhearts, an installation
designed by Jimenez Lai. This is the architect/artist’s first solo exhibition with Jai & Jai Gallery.
All surfaces of the gallery space is covered with white canvas. Like a cave painting, the entirety of
the room is Jimenez Lai’s continuous canvas upon which his architectural notations are drawn on all
interiors; walls, ceiling, and floor. Custom-stretched canvases are distributed in an informal
manner, forming an archeopelgo of extruded shapes foregrounding a sea of hand drawings. The
collection of stretched canvases are comprised of many shapes, including trapezoids, clouds, beach
blankets, pillows, and so forth…
Beachside Lonelyhearts
A story about an incorrectly remembered sunny afternoon
Fragment of thoughts glitched together along a beach plan
is a story about one sunny afternoon incorrectly remembered, with fragments of thoughts scattered all over the walls, floor and ceiling in a desperate attempt to piece back together the fondest and most idyllic sense of warmth.
“everywhere I look I see your face”
A beach house
The hatch is down but did the car run out of gas? Is the trunk open, is the luggage unlocked? Is the rent paid? Is the stove off?
But, this sunny afternoon is idyllic – extremely happy, and peaceful.
The incorrect memories repeated, told, retold, corrected, and reconstructed, with degrees of familiarity and differences – but, each time plausible and believable. Notes, sketches and thoughts scribbled onto the wall. Images, snapshots and visuals pasted as postcards.
Objects on the beach
Blankets, sand castle, shovel, umbrella (in plan),
Picnic, lifeguard tower, shadows of clouds, diving boards, swimming trunks,
This sunny afternoon is in a safe place, a treasure box, where no amount of reassembly and reconstruction could disturb the fact that this afternoon existed, and none of the choices in this reality would result in any consequences.
This sunny afternoon is a West Coast joy ride, or a terrifically beautiful nightmare
But there’s no one, nothing, as convertible roams on, with a collection of scattered thoughts flapping in the wind.
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Artist Biography
Jimenez Lai is a faculty member at UCLA and taught at University of Illinois at Chicago. He graduated with a Master of Architecture from University of Toronto. Previously, Jimenez Lai lived and worked in a desert shelter at Taliesin and resided in a shipping container at Atelier Van Lieshout on the piers of Rotterdam. Before founding Bureau Spectacular, Lai worked for various international offices, including OMA. Lai is widely exhibited and published around the world, including the MoMA-collected White Elephant. His first manifesto, Citizens of No Place, was published by Princeton Architectural Press with a grant from the Graham Foundation. Draft II of this book has been archived at the New Museum as a part of the show Younger Than Jesus. Lai has won various awards, including the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Debut Award at the Lisbon Triennale. In 2014, Lai designed theTaiwan Pavilion at the 14th Venice Architectural Biennale. In 2015, Lai organized the Treatise exhibition and publication series at the Graham Foundation, and was recently included in the Art Institute of Chicago’s permanent collection.
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