JACOB KASSAY – F’O’O’T’A’G’E’

Posted on 2020-06-08

It is indeed impossible to focus one’s eyes on the eleven OSB panels varying in size that have been mounted on the walls, their surfaces vibrating so much as if pixelated. If it isn’t our eyes that are squinting, it must be that the image itself is deformed. The photograph of the panels printed directly on its subject – the wood – makes the object tremble. The image is not correctly superimposed on its source; the crossing over of the two produces a defect that renders their relationship tangible.
This ghost-like presence, created by the splitting into two and therefore the disappearance of the integrity of the captured surface, has already been explored by Jacob Kassay, former photography student at the University of Buffalo, through his previous exhibition You at the gallery Art: Concept.
Here the Siamese reiteration of the object within its own edges and the redundancy of the panels in the space produce an extraordinary effect: a phenomenon of exhaustion that doesn’t allow us to recognise the forms or words despite their repetition. In the reign of the compression of images, the choice of this ‘chipboard’ makes perfect sense. A chipboard is a chipboard is a chipboard. The material experiences a feeling of disconnection from the reality of itself.

Opposite – Long Take, 2020

Exhibition runs through to July 25th, 2020

Art : Concept
4, passage Sainte-Avoye
Access: gate at 8, rue Rambuteau
75003 Paris

www.galerieartconcept.com

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GRIMES – SELLING OUT

Posted on 2020-06-08

The retrospective-like presentation spans the last 10 years of her practice and includes: original drawings as well as digital prints, photographs and video.

Grimes is a project rooted in DIY production, an interdisciplinary endeavor derived from the self-taught artistry of its author, c Boucher. Boucher’s creation is titled Grimes, a persona and the imagined realm that she inhabits, spanning art, music, fashion, technology and film. The origin of Grimes recalls a sculptor’s process: actualizing a cerebral concept into physical reality, imagining raw material into being. Grimes takes form as a simulation combining gamer fantasy, anime and manga, science fiction, apocalyptic omens, and anachronistic fashion, among other genres.

Selling Out explores the notion of identity potential in the digital age: the ability to create, augment, and manifest ourselves outside of our biological limits. Boucher does so with WarNymph, a digital avatar executed in collaboration with her brother and artistic partner, Mac Boucher.

Opposite – Untitled (notebook drawing #1), 2006-2008

Exhibition runs through to August 31st, 2020

Maccarone
300 South Mission Road
CA 90033
Los Angeles

www.maccarone.net

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BRITTANY TUCKER – MEMOIR 1

Posted on 2020-06-08

Memoir 1, is a solo exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Brittany Tucker, a New York-based artist who has been working in Vienna during 2020. As with past works, Tucker continues to juxtapose realistic self-portraits with cartoonish figures meant to represent whiteness. However in Memoir 1, she has added a new colorful element and has created a group of drawings which shed even more light on her thoughts and feelings. They are more raw than the paintings. In presenting them, it is as though Tucker is sharing her private diary. Uniting all the works is the sense of shame and guilt that black women deal with in America by trying to fit into a society that often shuts them out. According to Tucker, “the cartoon figure is a shame monster that’s always there but never fully present.”

Opposite – I Have A Job Interview Later, 2020

Exhibition runs through to July 18th, 2020

Steve Turner
6830 Santa Monica Blvd.
CA 90038
Los Angeles

steveturner.la

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