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The Extremely Chaotic Life of Jamian Juliano-Villani
Less than six months after her Gagosian solo show, the downtown artist-slash-gallerist lost her gallery and all her money.
Downtown rats, art-school students, several generations of art stars, musicians, Hypebeast editors, collectors, writers, academics, Harold Ancart, Leo Fitzpatrick(bumming out cigs), Jennifer Lawrence — all there for Jamian Juliano-Villani’s solo show. Jamian and I work faster: There’s no drama; we cancel ideas and move on quickly; nothing is personal.” Within 24 hours of firing Zarsky, they thought up “The Patriot,” a group show that accepted anyone’s submissions; they put out the call on Instagram and through word of mouth. She showed paintings of crowds waiting to board the Hampton Jitney (“It really looks like people entering hell,” she said at the time) and a mother removing lice from a child’s head; the former was put near Kelley’s sculpture of a winged blonde man gagged and made into a chandelier fixture.
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