[PDF] Jason Rhoades

Did Rhoades 'learn by doing'?

In a review of the exhibition in Forbes, Clayton Press writes, "Rhoades was an adventurer, who might be called a 4-H Club romantic. The 4-H slogan is 'Learn by Doing.' Rhoades did . . . The complexity of Rhoades's installations is exceptional, often consisting of seemingly countless components.

Where did John Rhoades get his MFA?

Rhoades received his MFA from UCLA in 1993 after studying at the California College of the Arts in Oakland, the San Francisco Art Institute and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. During the time of his studies at the San Francisco Art Institute he was one of the founders of a movement called "Funk o' Metric", also known as FOM or FOAM.

How did Rhoades influence slang?

One might imagine language moving through Rhoades’s work like a vehicle through Los Angeles, where the car culture deeply inspired him, cruising through an accumulation of contexts, meanings, slogans, and slang, colliding to form hybrids, changing and evolving.

Who is Jack Rhoades' wife Rachel Khedoori?

Rhoades was the son of Jack and Jackie Rhoades and had two brothers, Greg and Matt. He was married to Australian-born artist Rachel Khedoori and had a three-year-old daughter named Rubi. Rhoades' sister-in-law (and his wife's identical twin sister) is the painter Toba Khedoori.