Jacques Louis Vidal: Wood Folks is Good Folks (Cause Wood Folks Don't Go on the Internet and Spread a Bunch of Fucking Lies) June 22, 2007

“Wood Folks is Good Folks”, is the first New York solo show by Jacques Louis Ramon Vidal. Vidal's work has many of the characteristics of folk art – a rejection of academic technique, a preference for centralized or all-over compositions, and a prioritization of the local rather than the general. And yet his use of folk idioms has very little to do with the populist and wholesome values that underpin the majority of the work, which usually bears that name. His work is a complex intermingling of "wayward forms and subjects" treated with both reverence and skepticism.

Jacques Louis Ramon Vidal (b. 1982, Columbus, OH) lives and works in Chicago, IL. He is an MFA candidate at Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT and received a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA. His work has been included in exhibitions at the LaMontagne Gallery in Boston, MA; Dam Stuhltrager Gallery in Brooklyn, NY; and the Metro Mall in Queens, NY; among others. His work has been reviewed in the New York Times. Vidal’s interests include Sugar Free Red Bull, wood (of all kinds) and working part-time at the Burger King.

Opening reception: Friday, June 22, 2007, 6-9 PM

Gallery Hours: Wed-Sun 12-6 PM

Official Website: http://www.stirusfreeus.com