Jonathan Lyndon Chase
The Fabric Workshop and Museum
“Big Wash,” Jonathan Lyndon Chase’s first institutional exhibition—at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in the artist’s hometown of Philadelphia—is a paean to queer Black sociality in layers of ecstatic intimacy, limpid melancholy, and soapy ablution. The artworks created for this show inhabit the Laundromat as a space of mundane yet sensual community. A textile Chase created in collaboration with the FWM, Spread your wings and prepare to fly (all works 2020), features a bold pattern of butterfly silhouettes that hold bodies close together alongside images of unfurling rosebuds—a metaphor for