Lettuce Makes You Tired

Dunes is pleased to announce Lettuce Makes You Tired, a solo show by Jamie Chan, a Chinese American artist based in Brooklyn, NY. This exhibition weaves together two lives of the artist: that of full time office employee, and that of the full time artist. More often than not the day jobs, which keep one's practice alive are shrouded from the viewer, a holdover perpetuating the myth of artistic practice. In Chan's case, the openness of this balance informs the work. "With little time to paint, I had to become more practical in how paint was applied and decisions were made, breaking down steps and layers in advance and knowing what was achievable in a 2 hour window. Most of the 2 hours would be spent looking, then I would strategize a few marks in order to spiritually move on with my life. I would wake up and brush my teeth near the painting before work. Later, digesting my dinner and listening to music, I would look and paint. Naturally, this shift of day to night energy would become fused into the paintings, making them into accumulations of small transitions and about this version of time." With paintings and drawings dating from 2018-2022, this exhibition deals with subjects that are intensely personal, but also widely relatable to anyone familiar with the trappings of aspirational lifestyle advertising; Fitness, Tech, Cars... "Getting Ahead".