![]() ![]() This unique dual structure draws on the artist’s lifelong fascination with mirroring and doubles, so that each half of the exhibition echoes and reflects the other. Conceived as a whole but displayed in two distinct parts, the exhibition appears simultaneously here at the Whitney and at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, two institutions with which Johns has had long-standing relationships. ![]() Featuring his most iconic works along with many others shown for the first time, it comprises a broad range of paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures from 1954 to today across two sites. Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror is the most comprehensive retrospective ever devoted to Johns’s art. His profoundly generative practice helped spark movements including Pop art, Minimalism, and Conceptualism, among others, and has inspired successive generations of artists to this day. Johns’s early use of common objects and motifs, language, and inventive materials and formats upended conventional notions of what an artwork is and can be. He was born in 1930 in Augusta, Georgia spent the majority of his adult life in New York and today lives in Sharon, Connecticut, where, at the age of ninety-one, he remains active in his studio. Jasper Johns’s groundbreaking work sent shock waves through the art world when it was first shown in the late 1950s, and he has continued to challenge new audiences-and himself-over a career spanning more than sixty-five years. ![]()
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