Jon Revett: Get Your Kicks
December 15, 2024 - February 20, 2025
Opening Reception: Sunday, December 15, 4-8pm
Performance: Friday, January 31, 2025
 

Get Your Kicks is an exhibition by Canyon, Texas-based artist Jon Revett inspired by Route 66’s complicated narratives. This "Mother Road” has become part of American mythology and represents a freedom that brings with it problems like Westward expansionism and urban sprawl. Get Your Kicks explores this dichotomy by overlaying tessellated screen prints with a video projection using imagery from Revett’s long history with Route 66. The video installation is also accompanied by a sculpture and experimental music performance during the run of the show.

Join us for an opening reception on Sunday, December 15, and again for the music performance on Friday, January 31. More details to follow.

About the artist:

Jon Revett is an artist and educator living and working in Canyon, Tx. Born in Germany and spending his formative years in Austin, he then moved to the Texas Panhandle. There he experienced his creative genesis on a trip to Robert Smithson’s Amarillo Ramp. He was the primary organizer for the Yellow City Art Gallery from 1999-2001, and a member of the Dynamite Museum in the mid-90s, as well as being the keyboardist in a few Amarillo rock bands. During all these adventures, he remained a prolific painter and continues his artistic practice exploring a variety of media. Revett has completed residencies at Slade College of Art in London, Tajo Taller and Panik Studios in Mexico City, and Mariposa Eco-Village just outside Amarillo. He is currently Professor of Art and Art Program Director at West Texas A&M University.