One of Your Girls or Your Homies: Tan Jazz Mont
For Immediate Release
October 10, 2024
Press Contact: Catherine McIntosh
909 626-1386, cell 713 829-9338
December 7, 2024 – March 23, 2025
Claremont Lewis Museum of Art, 200 W. First St., Claremont, CA
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 7, 6-9:00 p.m.
As a companion to Home in Aztlán, an exhibition of recent work by Tan Jazz Mont will be featured in the Dike Gallery. One of Your Girls or Your Homies: Tan Jazz Mont will present paintings and sculpture at the intersection of autobiography, social commentary, and abstraction.
Tan Jazz Mont, a queer artist who lives and works in the Inland Empire, harvests the rich imagery of his Hispanic heritage to speak to the irresolvable complexities of identity. Personal narratives are in constant flux, straddling the precipice between iconography and the materiality of paint. Angst and hope are tenuously held together by an appreciation of the absurd that utilizes humor without mockery. His style is intuitive and experimental while also engaging in self-conscious revision and subversion.
Mont earned an MFA from Claremont Graduate University and was awarded the AIGA Worldwide Scholarship and the CGU Merit Scholarship twice. Mont is a Visual Arts professor at San Bernardino Valley College, Mt. San Jacinto College, and Moreno Valley College.
Both exhibitions will open with a reception on Saturday, December 7 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.
The Museum, located in the historic Claremont Depot at 200 W. First Street next to the Metrolink Station, is open Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, from noon to 4 p.m. Admission is free every Friday. For more information visit clmoa.org.