HER HIGHNESS' NEW PAIR OF JEANS - Jocko Weyland
Jocko Weyland
HER HIGHNESS' NEW PAIR OF JEANS
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24pages, 115gr, 16x23,5cm, sewing
Artwork13,5x20,3cm
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The drawings in this volume are loosely based on, or at least inspired by, scenes and vignettes from the short stories appearing in Jocko Weyland's Eating Glass, published by 1980 Editions in 2015, as well as from the as-yet unpublished follow-up collection Strawberry Essence.
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Jocko Weyland (b. 1967, Helsinki, Finland) is the author of The Answer is Never - A Skateboarder's History of the World (Grove Press, 2002), The Powder and Danny's Lot (Dashwood Books, 2011 and 2015), and the short story collection Eating Glass, published in 2015 by 1980 Editions in Paris. He started the serial publication Elk in 2003, which spawned Elk books and the eponymous Elk Gallery, where he organized sixteen shows between 2006-11. In New York from 1991 to 2006 Weyland worked as an archivist for the Burns Archive, the Sygma Photo Agency, and The Associated Press Photo Library. He lived in Beijing for two years teaching English and writing a bimonthly column called "Raw China" for Vice Magazine, in 2017 Dashwood released „Geomancy" photobook from that period. Between 2013-2017 he was chief curator at MOCA Tucson. Then he moved to Mexico and work in winters as a lift operator at the Diamond Peak ski area in Nevada, what becomes currently place of living.
He has had exhibitions at Ever Gold, San Francisco, California; FakeSpace, Beijing, China; PG4S, Los Angeles, California; Franklin Parrasch, New York; Kerry Schuss, New York. Weyland is represented by Kerry Schuss Gallery
