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Jimmy Joe Roche

Greater Black Astral Dripper

2012

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Jimmy Joe Roche

Greater Black Astral Dripper

2012

Physical Qualities Aluminum, digital print on vinyl, and acrylic paint, 122 1/2 x 99 1/2 x 9 1/4 in. (311.2 x 252.7 x 23.5 cm.)
Credit Line Alice and Franklin Cooley Fund
Object Number 2013.288
The mirrored forms of Jimmy Joe Roche’s sculpture evoke the two hemispheres of the brain and resemble the symmetrical inkblots used in Rorschach psychological tests—imagery also explored by Andy Warhol in the 1980s. In Rorschach testing, a subject is asked to free associate with a sequence of shapes as part of a carefully structured process for analyzing the human psyche. However, Baltimore-based Roche replaces the standard black inkblots of the test with a complex and pulsating network of lines and colors, perhaps to suggest a mazelike and highly animated state of mind.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2013; RARE Gallery, NY; the artist
Front Room: Nathaniel Mellors and Jimmy Joe Roche

Artist

Jimmy Joe Roche

1980–2000

born Tallahassee, FL 1981
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