On View at the Hammer Museum through January 15, 2012
SELECTIONS FROM THE HAMMER CONTEMPORARY COLLECTION
featuring Untitled (Ricky Jay) by Glenn Kaino
Glenn Kaino (American, b. 1973)
Untitled (Ricky Jay), 2010
Playing cards
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Gift of the Artist and LAXART, in honor of Ricky Jay.
Featured in the Sections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection installation October 2011 – January 2012.
Photo by Brian Forrest.
The magician, actor, writer, and collector Ricky Jay is rendered here by Glenn Kaino in playing cards, one of the tools in Jay’s magician’s quiver.
Kaino studies the history and practice of magic as a parallel to art making: both artists and magicians develop finely honed skills to create illusions
that rely on their audience’s willing suspension of disbelief. This homage to the widely respected Jay is a nod both to op art and to
the magician’s long-held card-throwing record. From certain angles, the work appears as a jumble of planes and colors,
but from just the right vantage point, the cards coalesce into Jay’s unmistakable visage.
Extraordinary Exhibitions: Broadsides from the Collection of Ricky Jay was presented at the Hammer Museum in 2007,
and Kaino donated this portrait to the Hammer Contemporary Collection in honor of Jay.
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THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE'S LIST OF HOLIDAY BOOKS, FEATURING
CELEBRATIONS OF CURIOUS CHARACTERS BY RICKY JAY
FROM McSWEENY's BOOKS
THE LA TIMES BOOK REVIEW
CELEBRATIONS OF CURIOUS CHARACTERS BY RICKY JAY
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THE NEW YORKER ONLINE
SO MANY WIERD WORLDS: A CONVERSATION WITH
RICKY JAY
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
CONJURORS, CONMEN & OTHER STRANGE CELEBRITIES
THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
INTERVIEW WITH RICKY JAY
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GENTLEMAN'S QUARTERLY ONLINE
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RECENT EVENTS
RICKY JAY appeared as himself on THE GREAT SIMPSINA,
a new episode of THE SIMPSONS, which aired APRIL 10, 2011.
WIRED MAGAZINE
FEBRUARY 2011 ISSUE
Ricky Jay Tells Tales of History's Most Singular Scammers
Special Underworld Edition
Did you see
RICKY JAY on CBS's 60 MINUTES?
MAGIC, 1400s–1950s, published by Taschen
Ricky Jay, Contributing Author
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Grammy Nominated!
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N.B. Ricky Jay is not now, nor has he ever been, on “Facebook.”
The Ricky Jay page is operated by an IMPOSTER.
from the New Yorker Magazine
by Mark Singer
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