{"id":131,"date":"2006-08-10T13:22:57","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T18:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2006\/08\/10\/jason-rhoadesupdatemeccatuna-decal\/"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:44:15","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T17:44:15","slug":"jason-rhoadesupdatemeccatuna-decal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2006\/08\/10\/jason-rhoadesupdatemeccatuna-decal\/","title":{"rendered":"~JASON RHOADES\/update\/&\/MECCATUNA DECAL"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jason<\/p>\n

this is a scan of the decal JASON RHOADES produced for his ‘MECCATUNA’ exhibit,
\nwhich ran from September 12 thru October 25, 2003, at the DAVID ZWIRNER Gallery,
\nin Chelsea, NYC. The original is 8 x 8″. It was also the image for the show’s card,
\nand was identified as: “Neon transformer label, altered and translated, 2003”<\/p>\n

UP-DATE: TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 2006:<\/strong><\/p>\n

In CALIFORNIA – the Code of Civil Procedure denies public access to autopsy reports. <\/p>\n

THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2006:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The official cause of death is: heart attack. Everybody is waiting for the autopsy
\nresults, though it is rumored that they won’t be released to the public. not sure of
\nthe finer legal journalistic workings here, but supposedly Walter Robinson over at artnet
\nhas a buddy in L.A. who’s going to get them to him, as soon as they surface.
\nguess we have to start reading artnet<\/a> again. <\/p>\n

Despite the DAVID ZWIRNER Gallery’s notification that the ‘BLACK PUSSY’
\nsoirees had wrapped over a month ago – reporters are interested in the
\nautopsy because they feel a need to be vindicated for relating the facts of
\nthe matter as that the death occured at a nightclub performance of a ‘Black Pussy’
\nevent. Being told that the misinformation hurt the family’s feelings was a little
\nmuch – since it was the artist himself who put forward the shocking and
\ncontroversial title in the first place. At any rate, no disrespect here, Jason was
\nrumored to be a very intense and party hard kind of guy – in other words: –
\nwhen it came to ‘in-your-face’ – he was all there .. and it obviously
\ntook its toll – just specifically how – is what everyone is interested in – especially all
\nthe more the gallery tries to whitewash the whole story – which is the general
\nfeeling that is buzzing from the street up. For example: although it doesn’t
\nmake the facts any less sad or less of a loss for those close to him, his family
\nunit was not as ‘typical’ as the gallery had made it out to be – reportedly Jason and
\nhis wife were seriously estranged for over a year now.<\/p>\n

Reports were also surfacing that Jason’s last two event\/performances, including
\nthe recent, now notorious, ‘Black Pussy’ soirees, did really well and he was
\nrolling in dough. even buying real estate interests ! It was not an
\nexaggeration to say he was<\/em> on the brink of (mainstream) success.<\/p>\n

In fact, the 2003 ‘MECCATUNA’ exhibit in NYC, did really well too.
\nalthough street lore has it that Zwirner was initially
\nreluctant to put up the initial (high) production costs. <\/p>\n

… for those of you who are as clueless as this writer, ‘MECCATUNA’ was
\na stand-in for ‘MECCAPU**Y’ – the story being that Jason (or his gallery)
\ndidn’t think you could say ‘MECCAPU**Y’ and live.
\nAs one art wag, recently opined, maybe you can’t get away with saying ‘BLACK PUSSY’
\nin south central L.A. either ! – who knows what took him down – ? Quentin Tarantino
\ncould have a field day, in fact here’s a vote for MICHAEL MANN to helm the movie bio..
\nthe NY TIMES Obit came with a super photo of Jason leaning back in a chair, in his
\nstudio, very reminiscent of that famous last late photo of Jean Michel Basquiat,
\nexcept Jason’s suit was Miami Vice – white, not NYC black…<\/p>\n

and WE ALL KNOW what happens to artists who are lucky enough to go out
\n in a ‘party down’ mode – JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT move over – there is going
\nto be new competiton at the art auctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

this is a scan of the decal JASON RHOADES produced for his ‘MECCATUNA’ exhibit, which ran from September 12 thru October 25, 2003, at the DAVID ZWIRNER Gallery, in Chelsea, NYC. The original is 8 x 8″. It was also the image for the show’s card, and was identified as: “Neon transformer label, altered and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}