On the woven floor of Juta Burlap, the artist from Brooklyn, Jennifer J. Lee, paints photorealist scenes that discover the saturation of photos from modern expertise. The barbecue construction of the material conjules associations with the pixel screens, taking part in with the connection between the digital and analog representations of the every day objects.
Latest work, of which nearly a dozen had been watched within the solo exhibition of the artist at Klaus von Nichtsgend Gallery, highlights a private take a look at nostalgia, a fascination with the act seemingly banal transfigured into references and symbolic objects.
Lee’s work are strongly contrasting the moment gratitude of the scroll by way of limitless photos, inflicting the pace with which we eat info. She describes her course of as a type of “sustained awakening and remark meditation”, the interpretation of digital pixels into manually painted brushes and within the cloth that stretch to simulate screens.
The artist’s technical capacity to translate completed particulars on a comparatively injured floor speaks of the time and a spotlight to supply a single portray. Small on the dimensions, her items reveal stunning interactions between the surfaces of the objects and the tissue.
Denim, for instance, will increase its personal signature cloth, which in works similar to “acid denims” appears to be in each concord and opposition to the bachelor. The portrayal of a clean object within the “safety mirror” presents the problem to make the glass look polished whereas nodding to the cereals we affiliate with the CCTV supplies. And plenty of fingerprints within the sand suggests one other kind of wheat, umbrellas and delicate colours appear to vibrate or flicker as a result of low -number jute cloth.
Lee’s current work are returning to Y2K, an period on the cusp of an enormous technological and social change as private computer systems, cellphones, and the Web has turn out to be extra extensively obtainable, creating the social media platforms that we nonetheless use at this time – though they’ve Modified deep from the primary time it appeared.
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