Evidence: The Art of Candy Jernigan

Chuck Close is internationally renowned for his large-scale paintings of the human face. . His work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions, including a major retrospective by the Museum of Modern Art, New York.Stokes Howell is the author of The Sexual Life of Savages and Other Stories. She runs a design studio in New York. He lives in Southern California.Laurie Dolphin was Candy Jernigan's design pa

For eight years after her untimely death in 1991, the evidence of artist Candy Jernigan's life was stored in a quiet Manhattan basement. Little known until now outside a circle of New York's artistic avant- garde, Jernigan's one-of-a-kind talent is finally brought to light in Evidence. The works collected here reveal a fierce and funny creative spirit, an artist whose commitment to documenting life as she really found it led her not only to record sample swipes of the food she consumed, but also to stuff a roadkill rat and lovingly arrange it in a diorama. Drawers and shelves were crammed with paintings, collages, drawings, journals, and eclectic installation pieces like Ninety-nine Bottles of Beer on the Wall-composed of, well, ninety-nine small laboratory bottles of beer on a wall. Including four gatefolds, Evidence is an art book that gives readers a witty, transformative vision of the stuff that composes our lives - and bears witness to the genius of a truly original thinker.. Jernigan's method - using the precision of a scientist to reveal the souls of discarded objects - makes her advocacy of the overlooked at once surprisingly charming and thought-provoking

Andrewnyc said A worthy monograph. A loving, beautifully produced tribute to a unique and fascinating artist.. "Evidence: The Art of Candy Jernigan" according to Kathryn Olmstead. I waited years to get this book and it was not like the review. It was more like a travel journal then her art work. Would like to see more of her art work. Was not worth the wait.. Revolutionises the mundane!!! Kate This book has become one of my bedside companions, and certainly will make you reflect upon the world in a manner that is foriegn. It is nothing like you will have ever seen, and it is more wonderful than you can imagine.In Candy's world, everything; the smears of sauces, the crusts of bread, the crack vials found in New York, a crushed saucepan, a dead rat and the bottletop nearby Jim Morrison's grave, become worthy of attention and transformed into art.She will make you peer at the sidewalk, wondering about the origins of that dust, make you pocket that docket in the desire to transform into a collage of your day's events.Whi

When Candy Jernigan died at age 39, she left behind a tremendous oeuvre of paintings, prints, sculpture, theatrical designs and travel notebooks.   . The beautifully designed book makes a fitting retrospective for an immensely talented artist. Found Dope Part II, for example, showcases hundreds of brightly capped crack vials that she found in her poor neighborhood. Evidence: The Art of Candy Jernigan exhibits more than 100 color images of her extraordinary work, which often transformed refuse into displays that fused art with anthropology. Recently unearthed in her basement studio, this Evidence speaks for itself, and the poignant, elegant introduction by Chuck Close is an added bonus. Reviews from: FLAUNT PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY Candy Jernigan's collages and photographs of scavenged material were little known