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Candy Jernigan. 1 work in the collection. View artist. API. Images & permissions. Open access. Candy Jernigan, THE NEW YORK COLLECTIONS, Found Dope: Part II, 1986. Found crack vials, colored pencil, graphite pencil, and ink stamp on paper, sheet (sight): 27 3/8 × 39 1/2 in. (69.5 × 100.3 cm) Image (sight): 27 3/8 × 39 1/2 in. (69.5 × 100.3 cm).
Candy Jernigan, The New York Collections, Found Dope: Part II , 1986. Found objects on paper. Paper: 28 x 39 inches (71.1 x 99.1 cm) Candy Jernigan lived and worked in New York (d. 1991).
These found object works include Found Dope, Found Dope II, and Box O' Roaches, the latter being several of the insects mounted on velvet, in a 1989 New York Magazine interview, Jernigan would characterize the piece– "I wanted them to look regal". [26]
Looking to the sidewalks of the East Village, then an epicenter of the crack epidemic, Jernigan found the source material for a body of documentary works including Found Dope and Found Dope 11. For the latter, the artist gathered 308 crack vials and organized them into a grid, with marginal notations describing the location from where they were ...
Feb 25, 2013 · Two of my favorite pieces in the show are by Candy Jernigan. Married to composer Phillip Glass, Jernigan is a relatively unknown artist whose career was cut short in 1991 when she died at 39 of liver cancer. Her Homage to Goya and Found Dope II are painstakingly organized pieces that convey order and meaning to the mundane.
Aug 4, 2015 · In the 1980s, artist Candy Jernigan collected detritus from the streets of the East Village. For her piece Found Dope 2, currently hanging in the new Whitney Museum, she collected 308 crack vials and their colorful caps, along with a map of the streets where she found them. She recorded the location and the time of collection.
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Jul 12, 2019 · Art. Candy Jernigan. By Johanna Fateman. July 12, 2019. The artist, who died in 1991, at the age of thirty-nine, is best known as a taxonomist of the Lower East Side who used the crack vials,...
