jessalyn wanlim
Contemporary
Contemporary

jessalyn wanlim

Born 1982

Jean-Michel Basquiat: A Voice From the Streets and Beyond Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1960 to Haitian and Puerto Rican parents, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s life was a collision of cultures, experiences, and artistic impulses. His early years were marked by movement – leaving home at fifteen to live in Lower Manhattan, immersing himself in the vibrant, often chaotic, world of New York City's downtown art scene. This wasn’t a conventional path to an artistic career; he honed his skills through odd jobs, playing in noise bands, and most significantly, engaging with the burgeoning graffiti movemen…

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An Interactive Constellation

The Subject Atlas

A chart of jessalyn wanlim's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.

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Spokes — Subject

Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.

Rings — Career Period

Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.

Threads — Shared Context

Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.