Jim Drain
Jim Drain attended the Rhode Island School of Design (1994-1998 BFA, Sculpture) and was a member of Forcefield, a collective that explored the merging of music, performance film and installation into one platform. Forcefield was active from 1996 to 2002 and was part of the Whitney Biennial, 2002. Drain has had solo exhibitions at the University of Florida; Locust Projects, Miami; and the Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin. Drain has participated in group exhibitions at MOCA, LA; the Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia; Serpentine Gallery, London; Depart Foundation, Rome; and the 7th Bienniale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon among others. His work is in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of Art; Peres Art Museum, Miami; Museum of Modern Art; The Rhode Island School of Design Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Drain was recognized with artist Bhakti Baxter for creating “best public art projects in the nation” by Americans for the Arts in 2014.
Jim Drain
Installation View, Snake Pit, Coney Island Art Walls, curated by Jeffrey Deitch
2017
Installation View, Pinwheels, LA MOCA
2012
Installation View, Love Letter to Varvara Stepanova, The Pit
2017
Installation View, Port Miami
2012
Installation View, Saturday’s Ransom, Locust Projects
2010
Installation View, Bass Chess Tables, Bass Museum
2015
Installation View, Utopia Muscle
Installation View, Utopia Muscle
Ebay Kachina In A Vortex
2017
clothing, fabric, chicken wire, wood armature, staples
104 x 46 x 38 in, (264.16 x 116.84 x 96.52 cm)
Peaceable Kingdom
2016
collage on paper (pencil, ink and acrylic)
19 x 24 in, (48.26 x 60.96 cm)
Peaceable Kingdom
2016
collage on paper (pencil, ink and acrylic)
19 x 24 in, (48.26 x 60.96 cm)
Peaceable Kingdom, leopard
2016
collage on paper (pencil, ink and acrylic)
14 x 11 in, (35.56 x 27.94 cm)
Drifter
2008
mixed materials (steel armature, found fabrics, wood, embellishments)
84 x 48 x 36 in, (214 x 122 x 91 cm)
Eggs Over Ozzy
2010
mixed materials over a steel armature, found and hand-made fabrics and embellishments
73 x 43 in, (185 x 109 cm)
Installation view, Jim Drain, I would gnaw on my hand, Greene Naftali
2007
Installation View, I would gnaw on my hand, Greene Naftali
2007
Untitled
2011
plaster, steel, glitter, spray paint, fake nails, dirty green pedestal
70 x 11 x 11 in, (178 x 28 x 28 cm)
Untitled (Maze sweater)
2009
knit sweater
Jim Drain Exhibitions
Won't You Be My Neighbor
October 28 - December 31
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JIM DRAIN
Utopia Muscle
May 3 - June 11, 2017
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- Curbed, Mercedes Kraus, Remembering Fort Thunder: 11 Dudes, Two Bands, One Working Toilet, October 2020
- The Cowl, Malena Aylwin, PC Galleries Unveils Murals in Fargnoli Park, October 2018
- Vogue, Eve Macsweeney, May 2018
- Art in America, Utopia Muscle, May 2017
- TimeOut, Michael Wilson, Jim Drain, "Utopia Muscle", May 2017
- BLOUIN ARTINFO, Chess Tables, May 2017
- Wall Street International Art, Rayan Elena Vergara Meersohn, Utopia Muscle, May 2017
- Coney Art Walls, Jim Drain, 2017
- Curbed New York, Zoe Rosenberg, Coney Art Walls return this weekend for the summer season, 2017
- Art Nerd Los Angeles, Lauren, Albrecht, Jim Drain's Seems/Seams Opens at VSF, April 2015
- LA Weekly, Catherine Wagley, Jim Drain: Seems/Sems, 2015
- ARTnews, The Editors of ARTnews, Consumer Reports: Jim Drain, November 2014
- BLOUIN ARTINFO, Allison Meier, 25 Questions For Offbeat Materials Artist Jim Drain, November 2012
- Interview Magazine, Angela Ledgerwood, Express Yourself, Jim Drain, November 2012
- Art in America, Heather Corcoran, Back to Painting: Q+A with Jim Drain, November 2012
- Vanity Fair, Carrie Carlisle, V.F.'s Guide to Art Basel: Jim Drain, November 2010
- The New York Times Style Magazine, Deborah Shapiro, Warm and Fuzzy Department | Jim Drain's Wearable Art, January 2010