Jupiter Contemporary is pleased to present a solo exhibition of recent works by legendary musician and Funk icon, George Clinton. Featuring 13 paintings from three of his ongoing series: “Mothership,” “Atomic Dog,” and “Entities,” the show Ruff presents a collection of Clinton’s most iconic themes from across his prolific career.
Clinton is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, performer, costume designer, and founder of the band Parliament/Funkadelic, a collective that developed an influential and eclectic form of funk music during the 1970s that drew on science fiction, outlandish fashion, psychedelia and surreal humor. His visual artwork is a mix of funkadelic mythologies and utopian fantasies. As a founder of the Afrofuturist movement, Clinton inspired some of contemporary arts’ leading figures, such as Lauren Halsey, Mickalene Thomas, Derrick Adams, and Rashid Johnson with his incomparable mix of musical traditions and utopian fantasies, as celebrated by P-Funk.
George Clinton was born in 1941, Kannapolis, North Carolina, and is a musician, singer, bandleader, and record producer. His Parliament-Funkadelic collective developed an influential and eclectic form of funk music during the 1970s that drew on science fiction, futuristic fashion, psychedelia, and surreal humor. He has had solo exhibitions at Jeffrey Deitch, New York; SPILLMAN | BLACKWELL Fine Art, New Orleans; George Washington Carver Museum & Cultural Center, Austin; and The National Museum of African American Music, Nashville. His Mothership is on permanent display at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and is currently featured prominently throughout their Afrofuturism exhibition on view through August 18, 2024. Clinton currently lives and works in Tallahassee, Florida.