Jake Longstreth
Known for his large-scale paintings of architecture and nature, Jake Longstreth (b. 1977) recounts the changing modern landscapes of our time. Astutely observing the corners of suburban America, the artist primarily documents restaurant and retail chains, immortalising many which are becoming increasingly obsolete. In his nature landscapes, Longstreth’s equally subtle and elegant compositions reveal location-specific trees, foliage and clouded skies. With a sense of anticipatory nostalgia and a wry, underlying humour, the artist takes a place within the tradition of landscape painting to uncover both the beauty and absurdity of storefront culture, as well as the creeping effects of a changing environment.
Jake Longstreth’s paintings do far more than capture the forgotten facades of retail chains. They remember a part of suburban life that’s drifting into the past.
Timothy Latterner, ‘Meet the Artist Chronicling Disappearing Chain Stores’ in Architectural Digest, 21 August 2020.
Image: The Galleria, 2022, oil on canvas, ca. 182.9 x 213.4 cm; 72 x 84 in. Photo: Charles White / JWPictures.com, courtesy of the artist
Selected Works
Group Exhibitions
The yellow light at 6pm:
Remembering, envisioning, sensing landscape
Darren Almond, Georg Baselitz, Glenn Brown, André Butzer, Sarah Crowner, Carroll Dunham, Hedwig Eberle, Ida Ekblad, Günther Förg, Katharina Grosse, Alex Israel, Melike Kara, Alex Katz, Friedrich Kunath, Beth Letain, Jake Longstreth, Tal R, David Salle, Julian Schnabel, David Schutter, Sean Scully, Ben Sledsens, Mònica Subidé, Vivian Suter, Liliane Tomasko, Tursic & Mille, Rinus Van de Velde, Grace Weaver, Emma Webster, Toby Ziegler
curated by Christian Malycha
Biography
VITA
1977
Born in Sharon, USA
1999
BFA, Lewis and Clark College, Portland
2005
MFA, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
AWARDS
2008
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2007
Artist in Residence, Kimmel Harding-Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Aïshti Foundation, Lebanon
Chase Manhattan Bank, San Francisco
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento
Fidelity Investments, Boston
The Capital Group Companies, Los Angeles
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Springtime in Southern California
Nino Mier Gallery, Brussels
2021
Seasonal Concepts
Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles
Sand Canyon
Nino Mier Gallery, Marfa
2020
Spring Wind
Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles
2019
Brick & Mortar I Seven Trees
Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles
2017
Pastures and Parking Lots: Outtakes and Rarities, 2003–2016
Crisp Ellert Museum, Flagler College, St. Augustine
2016
Carbon Canyon
LTD, Los Angeles
Pairs (Jake Longstreth and Andy Woll)
Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles
2015
Free Range
Monya Rowe Gallery, New York
Free Range
Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco
2014
TRUDI Gallery, Los Angeles
Sean McFarland and Jake Longstreth
Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco
2013
Particulate Matter
Monya Rowe Gallery, New York
2011
Pastures
Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco
2008
All it is
Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco
2006
Wabi Ranch
Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
The yellow light at 6pm:
Remembering, envisioning, sensing landscape, curated by Christian Malycha
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2021
Salon de Peinture,
Almine Rech, New York
The Beatitudes of Malibu,
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
Inaugural Exhibition,
Nino Mier Gallery, Brussels
2020
Five Year Anniversary Show
Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles
2019
Some Trees
Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles
2017
Apocalypse Summer
LTD, Los Angeles
2015
Full of Peril and Weirdness: Painting as a Universalism
M Woods, Beijing
Three Day Weekend
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Two
Secret Recipe, Los Angeles
2014
Landscape City
Eagle Rock Center for the Arts, Los Angeles
2013
Being Paul Schrader
Monya Rowe Gallery, New York
2010
Skeptical Landscapes
Herter Gallery, UMASS Amherst
Hi-Def
Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco
2009
One Too Many
Partisan Gallery, San Francisco
Summer Sho
Samuel Freeman Gallery, Los Angeles
2007
Real Space
Mahan Gallery, Columbus
James Chronister and Jake Longstreth
Gallery of Urban Art, Emeryville
Material World
Alliance Française, San Francisco
2005
Cream from the Top
Benicia Arts Center
MFA Exhibition
CCA, San Francisco
Other Planes of There
Adobe Books, San Francisco
Selected Press
Metropolis October 2021
Clever, Architectural Digest August 2020
Sight Unseen August 2013