Justin Duerr: Surrender to Survival
On view through January 12, 2020
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Chicago, Illinois
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In 1999, Justin Duerr had an intense vision that revealed to him an extremely detailed, multi-character story. He’s spent his life since then building upon that manifestation, using marker and pen to draw intricate scenes, each a chapter of a larger narrative, on interconnected panels he refers to as “story scrolls.” This body of work currently consists of 28 scrolls that, when pieced together, span more than 100 feet in length.
In “Justin Duerr: Surrender to Survival,”selections from the story scrolls and his other drawings will be on view at Intuit, inviting visitors to dive deeper into Duerr’s artistry and imaginative, visual storytelling.
“I intend to continue adding to this ongoing piece until the time of my death. If I am physically able to, I plan to eventually connect the final panel to the first panel, so that the completed drawing, which will have been a life’s-work, will take the form of a cycloramic image with no clear beginning or end,” Duerr said.
Image credits: Justin Duerr (American, b. 1976). Surrender to Survival (detail), 2018. Pen, marker and inks on paper, 25 ½ x 19 ½ in. Courtesy of the artist
