NEW EXHIBIT - Differences and Samenesses: Jasper Johns Decoys

“In a sense, one does the same thing two ways and can observe differences and samenesses…I can understand that someone else might find that boring and repetitious, but that’s not the way I see it.” -Jasper Johns in conversation with Christian Geelhaar, 1979 In the work of Jasper Johns, “decoy” is both a noun and a verb. It is also a title: one that Johns chose for two print editions and two paintings between 1971 and 1973. Differences and Samenesses: Jasper Johns Decoys is an exhibition about Jasper Johns’ Decoys and about how Jasper Johns decoys, which is to lure, misdirect, and capture attention. This exhibition considers the artist’s careerlong preoccupations with doubling, ambiguity, and trompe l’oeil to suggest that Decoy opens up ways of seeing the “differences and samenesses” between things that appear to be–but are not–the same.Opening December 1st