At the opening of his solo show at Albertz Benda, Devon DeJardin snuck away to tell us why the L.A. art scene is coming for New York.
’s fashion company failed, he experienced something like divine intervention when a stranger on Instagram offered him 100 bucks for a ten-minute phone call. He agreed, thinking he could use the money to buy groceries, and found himself talking to a psychic sugar daddy who encouraged him to paint. Eight years later, DeJardin has just unveiled his very first solo show at Chelsea’s Albertz Benda, titled.
I got on the phone with this guy, he’s like, “Hey, man. Are you religious? Are you into spirituality?” I was like, “Well, I just studied world religion for four-and-a-half years. That’s a loaded question. I don’t really know how to respond to that. But I definitely identified with the idea that there’s something else out there.” He was like, “Okay, well, I’ve been following you. I’ve been praying for you. I don’t know what you believe, but I think god’s telling me to tell you start painting.
I got approached to do my first show in Los Angeles in 2019 with a group called Coates and Scarry. We rented a building, did a really grassroots exhibition. The show sold out two-and-a-half weeks prior. We had 800 people show up. And I was like, “Yo, this shit’s really real. I don’t know what this guy did or what he said, but it’s happening.” And it gave me that encouragement to keep going.
But at the same time, I have no ego attachment to “making it” in this art world because it’s never something that I thought I was going to do. For me, it’s been this kind of cosmic roller coaster. Every time I come to a show I’m like, “I can’t believe this is happening.” I call my mom. That’s kept me so planted on the ground. This is definitely the profession I want to be in. I want to do this the rest of my life.
here’s a lot of collectors here tonight that have come from different countries and different states just to be here. I send them Christmas cards. I want to meet everyone and talk to everyone.. I was really interested in the idea of Dutch and Flemish old master painters that did these beautiful portraits of high society, royalty, kings, queens, all these different people that were human figures that were meant to be at the pinnacle of their time period.
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