Jimmie Durham
Lord Byron's Poem, 2010
pencil and collage on paper
two sheets: typed sheet 59.3 x 42.5 cm, written sheet 76.5 x 57.5 cm
Durham weaves webs of references around his subjects, at times pertinent, at times flippant. There are the Scots who went to live among American Indian peoples, who ended up fighting...
Durham weaves webs of references around his subjects, at times pertinent, at times flippant. There are the Scots who went to live among American Indian peoples, who ended up fighting Scots who had joined the US Army. The Gordons of Glenfiddich distillery are linked, in his freely associative imagination, to American Indian activist Jo Ann Yellowbird (from Gordon, Nebraska), to Lord Byron (real name George Gordon), "a cousin of Douglas Gordon”.
Exhibitions
Universal Miniature Golf (The Promised Land), Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow, 2010
Jimmie Durham: At The Center of the World, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 29 January - 07 May 2017
Jimmie Durham: At The Center of the World, Walker Art Center Minneapolis, Minneapolis, 22 June - 08 October 2017
Jimmie Durham: At The Center of the World, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 3 November 2017 - 28 January 2018
Jimmie Durham: At The Center of the World, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada, 25 March - 12 August 2018
Literature
Jimmie Durham: At The Center of the World, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles 2017, illustrated in colour p. 245