JB Jurve is pleased to announce Doot Doot (D.B. Sweeny), a show by the collective Animalfaith. The exhibition will be on view from December 11, 2010 through January 29, 2011.
Animalfaith will present a course of signs and symbols, a semiotic ping-pong match between the collective’s members, Marcus Herse and Michael Rey. On the walls will be assemblage works in plexiglas, wood, metal, synthetic hair, vinyl and tinsel accompanied by three wood sculptures on the floor, and hanging from the ceiling.
Among the pieces in the show are a series of plexiglas paintings titled Negotiations, in which Marcus Herse composes formal conversations using images that resemble ancient architecture and hands. The images of ambiguous hand gestures and expressions and the framing architectonic elements enter a dialog with one another and the materials of the assemblage works.
Opposite these works, OO OO by Michael Rey is a two-part wall sculpture composed of wood, plexiglas, vinyl, synthetic hair, and paint. Using the double as a device to create an apparition of one another, the artist evokes a doppelganger effect to emphasize the difference in each work.
These and the other works in Doot Doot (D.B. Sweeny) revolve around the concept of the unity of dualism. Like the movement of the ping-pong ball in a match, set in motion by the actions and reactions of the players, these works are the outcome of a continuing dialogue between the two artists. The exhibition becomes a field for the exchange of material, form, and image.
Sound Artist Alex Quintanar will join the conversation for the opening with live electronic sounds.
Patrick Hill - Hot and Dumb
November 13, 2010 - December 10, 2010
2nd Cannons in conjunction with JB Jurve is pleased to announce Hot and Dumb, an exhibition by Patrick Hill. Hot and Dumb consists of a series of prints, a sculpture and a forthcoming book of the same title (to be published by 2nd Cannons). Using a selection of 40 wood remnants from his last 8 years of sculptural production, Hill has created a large print series by “inking” each wood block with black urethane rubber and printing it onto hand-dyed, Japanese Masa rice paper. Each block has been printed in an edition of four, making a series of 160 editioned but unique prints.
In its Chinatown vitrine, 2nd Cannons will present Hot and Dumb (Cathedral), a sculpture consisting of the selected wood remnants used to make the print series.
JB Jurve will present a selection from the Hot and Dumb print series (through Dec 10).