2021 — Justin Chance

Recent: Low-Life @ Smart Objects, Los Angeles CA (2021) | Station @ Tuesday, Richmond VA (2021) | Better @ Gern en Regalia, New York NY (2021)

Right Now, 2021
Vinyl, archival tape, bow, mirrored glass

Right Now, 2021
Vinyl, archival tape, bow, mirrored glass

Spectrum, 2021
Edition of 55 drinking mugs, available for purchase at $50.

Spectrum, 2021
Edition of 55 drinking mugs, $50.

Better, two person exhibition with Hunter Foster at Gern en Regalia, New York, NY
(August 20 - September 19, 2021)
Link to exhibtion
Link to gallery website

Installation of group exhibition: “Bog Morals” at tilling, Montreal CA (July 22 - August 21, 2021)
Featuring work by Nadya Isabella, Justin Chance, and Freya Douglas Ferguson
Link to exhibition website

House of Mirth, 2021
Embroidery, lacquered and hammered silk, household 2-in-1 primer and gloss, moisture-resistant XPS insulation, string lights.
Approx. 48 x 96 inches

10,088days+ (ongoing), 2021
Embroidery on burned goldenrod dyed silk, masking tape, Letraset, snap-frame. 11 x 14 inches.

Fast Car, 2020-2021
Marker, jigsaw puzzle, screws. Assembled by Hunter Foster. 20 x 28 inches.

Fast Car, 2020-2021
Marker, jigsaw puzzle, screws. Assembled by Hunter Foster. 20 x 28 inches.

Installation of group exhibition: “Some say the soul is made of wind” at Downs & Ross Reade St. New York NY (May 29 – Jul 31, 2021)
Left to right: Christopher Culver, Douglas Watt, Justin Chance, Christopher Culver
Link to exhibition website

Kitchen, 2019
Dyed and piled wool, desk fan, aluminium, tea,
22 × 15 × 6 inches / 55,9 × 38,1 × 15,2 cm

Installation of group exhibition: “Some say the soul is made of wind” at Downs & Ross, Reade St., New York NY (May 29 – Jul 31, 2021)
Left to right: Christopher Culver, Douglas Watt, Justin Chance, Christopher Culver, Justin Chance
Link to exhibition website

Rose for an Opposing Wall 1, 2015-6
Quilted wet and needle felted wool, silk, cotton, dye, 48 × 27 inches / 121,9 × 68,6 cm

Rose for an Opposing Wall 1, 2015-6. Quilted wet and needle felted wool, silk, cotton, dye, 48 × 27 inches / 121,9 × 68,6 cm

Installation of group exhibition: “Some say the soul is made of wind” at Downs & Ross Reade St. (May 29 – Jul 31, 2021)
Left to right: Justin Chance, Christopher Culver
Link to exhibition website

Hver dag, 2021
Dyed and piled wool, portable twin window fan and cooling unit, masking tape, Kleenex, tea, 11 1/2 × 33 × 3inches / 29,2 × 83,8 × 7,6 cm

Station, solo exhibition at Tuesday, Richmond VA
(June 17 - July 24, 2021)
Link to exhibition website
Link to exhibition text
Link to Single Camera (video of exhibition)

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Terminal, 2021
Wet and needle felted wool, silk, dye, marker, cotton; quilted.
65.5 x 46.5 inches

Stand-In (Poor Person), 2021
Standardized neutral color-grading studio latex paint (Munsell N7) on Hillbillie Standin Cardboard Cutout.
72 x 33 inches

Installation of group exhibition: “Proximity”, co-curated by Lindsay Preston Zappas at Wilding Cran, Los Angeles CA (June 12 – Jul 31, 2021)
Marwa Abdul-Rahman, Vikky Alexander, Yevgeniya Baras, Louis Cameron, Justin Chance, Chris Cran, Todd Gray, Elliott Hundley, February James, Heather McGill, Jason McLean, Paul Pescador, Lindsay Preston Zappas, Jenny Rask, Paul Salveson, Fran Siegel, Evan Whale and John Zane Zappas
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All Time, 2018-2019

Wet and needle felted wool, dye, pigment, silk, cotton, thread; quilted

40 x 48 inches

102 x 122 cm

Installation of group exhibition: “Latent Memory; Dust on my Tongue” at Miriam, Brooklyn NY (April 1 - May 30, 2021)
Justin Chance, Bryan DelValle, Bat-Ami Rivlin, Barb Smith, and Shangkai Kevin Yu
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Warwick, 2020-2021
Piled and dyed wool, wall-mount fan

Warwick, 2020-2021
Piled and dyed wool, wall-mount fan

Installation view of: “An Epihtet” co-curated by Jory Drew and Joelle Mercedes at Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago IL
(March 13 - April 30, 2021)
Betelhem Makonnen, Justin Chance, Jacobo Zambrano-Rangel, Nereida Patricia, Sydnie Jimenez
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January (Work Station), 2020-ongoing
1000 piece jigsaw puzzle, table, participant, tablecloth,
dimensions variable, jigsaw puzzle: 20 x 28".

January, 2020-ongoing (detail)
1000 piece jigsaw puzzle
dimensions: 20 x 28 inches

Low-Life, solo exhibition at Smart Objects, Los Angeles CA
(February 20 - April 10, 2021)
Link to exhibition website
Link to Commonwealth Butterfly Index
Link to exhibition text

Installation of solo exhibition “Low-Life” at Smart Objects, Los Angeles CA (February 20 - April 10, 2021)
Link to full exhibition

Spider, 2018-2021
Wet and needle felted wool, silk, cotton, gold tea, marker; quilted, 71 x 57 in.

Dying, 2020-2021
Wet and needle felted wool, silk, cotton, dye, dying marker; quilted

Dictionary, 2020-2021
Black tea, plaster, sheetrock, carpenter’s pencil, floor wax, book end
5.5 x 4.5 x 10 in

Installation of “Low-Life”, a solo exhibition at Smart Objects, Los Angels CA (February 20 - April 10, 2021)
Link to full exhibition

Thesaurus, 2021
Green tea, plaster, liquid nail, joint compound, sealing wax, dry wall tape, bookend, carpenter pencil 5.5 x 4.5 x 10 in.

D.E.A.R - Drop Everything and Read (Tarzan), 2021
Color print, aluminum frame, protective Mylar
16 x 20 in

#51 (United Kingdom) –Commonwealth, 2020-2021
Woven crayon and pastel on paper, UV varnish
Link to Commonwealth Butterfly Index

#51 (United Kingdom) –Commonwealth, 2020-2021
Woven crayon and pastel on paper, UV varnish
Link to Commonwealth Butterfly Index

Installation view of: “Remnant, Artifact, Flow” at Thierry Goldberg, New York NY (January 8 - February 7, 2021)
Justin Chance, Tony Chrenka, Doris Guo, Jeffrey Joyal,
Molly Rose Lieberman, Caitlin MacBride, and Bri Williams
Link to exhibition website

Garden, 2020-2021
Piled and wet felted wool, deodorant, box fans

Small War, 2020-2021
Piled wool, gold tea, chapstick, lotion, masking tape, box fan

Left to right: Anzac Day, 2020-2021, Treaty, 2020-2021, Armistice, 2020-2021

Treaty, 2020-2021
Glazed ceramic, soil, wire, dwarfed olive tree

Anzac Day, 2020-2021
Watercolor and wax on glazed ceramic, soil, wire, dwarfed rosemary tree (dimensions variable)

Armistice, 2020-2021
Glazed ceramic, soil, wire, dwarfed olive tree

Installation in group exhibition “This Tragedy”, organized by Ginny on Fredericks at Fonda, Leipzig DE (March 14 - April 14, 2020)
Justin Chance, Charlotte Edey, Angelique Heidler, Sebastian Jefford,
Tom Putman, Urara Tsuchiya
Link to exhibitoin website

Life Science, 2020
Colored pencil, marker, pigment, cut paper on tracing and mixed media paper; woven

Installation in group show “Materia Prima” at Gern en Regalia, New York NY (May 19 - June 30, 2019)
John-Elio Reitman, Justin Chance, Mo Romney, Megan Mehta, Robin Hodgdon
Link to exhibtion

Thursday, 2019-2020
Wet and needle felted wool, silk, cotton, dry wall tape, gesso, pigment; quilted

Secret, 2019-2020
Wet and needle felted wool, dye, silk, cotton; quilted

Thursday, 2019-2020
Wet and needle felted wool, silk, cotton, dry wall tape, gesso, pigment; quilted

Thursday, 2019-2020
Wet and needle felted wool, silk, cotton, dry wall tape, gesso, pigment; quilted

Town, 2020
Pigment, colored pencil and pastel on watercolor and tracing paper; woven

Installation of two-person exhibition “Half Past” at Three Four Three Four, Brooklyn NY (September 13 - October 6, 2019)
Justin Chance and Opal Mae Ong

The Earth and Its Heights, 2019
Poster

Installation of group exhibition “Sticks and Stones”, co-curated by Cheyenne Julien and Chadwick Gibson at Smart Objects, Los Angeles CA (March 24 - May 19, 2018)
Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio, Sarah Gail Armstrong, Justin Chance, Brandon Coley Cox, and Jasmine Nyende
Link to exhibition website

Untitled (The Morning, The Evening & The Night), 2013 - 2018
Wet and needle felted wool, dyed and burned silk, cottton; quilted