http://www.jennyjaskey.com Independent Curator Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:36:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The current exhibition at Art in General is “Erratic Anthropologies", which features Guy Benfield, Shana Moulton, Rancourt/Yatsuk, and Hong-An Truong, who construct narratives through video and performance that investigate a host of social subcultures (from hippie crafters to failed south Florida housing developers). In collaboration with Performa 09, a special ... http://www.jennyjaskey.com/2010/01/review-of-shana-moultons-the-undiscovered-antique-at-art-in-general/ Alexis Granwell invites us into a psychological space. In past projects the artist has used printmaking, drawing, and sculpture to map metaphysical landscapes, translating moments of ecstasy or despair into abstract compositions that explore the complex structures of an interior geography. Her newest work takes this investigation a ... http://www.jennyjaskey.com/2010/01/essay-for-alexis-granwell-exhibition/ Organized by Stamatina Gregory and Jenny Jaskey, Incarnational Aesthetics contemporary artists who use embodiment or “role play” in their work as a means of interrogating and deconstructing the public and private boundaries between self and other. More than a play-on-words or riposte to Nicolas Bourriaud’s term “relational aesthetics,” it ... http://www.jennyjaskey.com/2009/10/to-be-announced/ No Objective No Objective brings together artists who make simple gestures in banal materials – paint rolled on a wall, a block of sand placed on a pedestal, printouts covering the gallery – the works communicating an ambivalence towards textual meaning and the value of transcendence as a goal of non-objective ... http://www.jennyjaskey.com/2009/09/no-objective-2/ Re-Jenny-ation by Edith Newhall for the Philadephia Inquirer Sunday, August 23, 2009 Jenny Jaskey, who closed her Northern Liberties gallery in the spring to try life as an independent curator in New York, is still here in spirit, with an impressive group show she has organized for Tiger Strikes Asteroid called "No Objective." ... http://www.jennyjaskey.com/2009/08/no-objective-review-in-philadelphia-inquirer/ Around the Galleries: Getting sucked into 'Black Hole'  by Leah Ollman Los Angeles Times. Friday August 14, 2009, D19  To view "Black Hole," an absorbing video projection by Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib atKim Light/Lightbox, you must occupy just such a space -- a chamber dark enough to divest you of your bearings. Before ... http://www.jennyjaskey.com/2009/08/black-hole-los-angeles-times-review/ LOS ANGELES - Kim Light / Light Box is pleased to announce the gallery debut of collaborative work by Nadia Hironaka/Matthew Suib. The exhibition will feature an immersive video installation in the front gallery and a sound work in the courtyard. In both works, the motif and conventions of film noir ... http://www.jennyjaskey.com/2009/01/upcoming-exhibition-01/ THE ARTISTIC PRACTICE OF MICHAEL E. SMITH Michael E. Smith’s images and objects are portraits, making collages from smithereens of reality.  Smith’s exhibitions are improvisations. On site, he creates assemblages and installations out of profane objects, which are associated with social precarious situations and are marked by their everyday use. They are simple ... http://www.jennyjaskey.com/2008/10/michael-e-smith-2/ http://www.jennyjaskey.com/2008/10/ed-brown/ PHILADELPHIA, PA (August 12, 2008) - Jenny Jaskey Gallery is pleased to announce the group exhibition WYSIWYG from September 13 - October 18, 2008.  A reception with the artists will be held on Saturday, September 13 from 4-6 pm.  Titled after the computing acronym for “what you see is what ... http://www.jennyjaskey.com/2008/09/wysiwyg/