Jon Revett: Get Your Kicks
December 15, 2024–February 20, 2025
Reception: Friday, January 31, 7:30-9 pm, Performance 8 pm
Join us for a reception and performance at CO-OPt Research + Projects on Friday, January 31 for Jon Revett: Get Your Kicks, following the 2025 Texas Tech Art & Architecture Symposium, Orienting Imagination: What Are the Stakes on the Llano Estacado? The reception will include a music performance by Revett, aka Fat Thor, with Ryan Ingebritsen and Shannon Budd.
Get Your Kicks is an exhibition by Canyon, Texas-based artist Jon Revett inspired by Route 66’s complicated narratives. This “Mother Road” has become part of American mythology and represents a freedom that brings with it problems like Westward expansionism and urban sprawl. Get Your Kicks explores this dichotomy by overlaying tessellated screen prints with a video projection using imagery from Revett’s long history with Route 66. The video installation is also accompanied by a sculpture and experimental music performance during the run of the show.