Press Release
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Jessica Dickinson - The View From Here
December 7th, 2006 - January 13, 2007
Miami, FL – The Bas Fisher Invitational is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of paintings and drawings by New York based artist Jessica Dickinson.
In the speed induced, fragmented, and often mediated experience of contemporary life and visuality, Dickinson’s paintings are defiantly sensate and slow. Spatially and chromatically decelerated, her work carves out a contemplative and physical space in the visual field of the painting and viewer alike.
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Slow Birth 2004, Oil on limestone polymer on panel, 49" x 46" |
Often embodying the materiality of mediums like gouache, watercolor, fresco, pencil and crayon, Dickinson’s oil paintings seem to undermine or obfuscate its actual material. Through a layered process of painting, sanding and staining into a limestone-polymer ground, surfaces undulate both physically and perceptually revealing forms, colors and space that unfold at different viewing distances. Replicating the abstract and representational surface details of things like wood grain, or the shifting patterns of a river current, interior and exterior space bleeds into visual fields of light and darkness that examine the myriad and personal poetics of space. With each painting developed over the course of many months, time itself becomes inscribed in the subject of the work, linking it conceptually to the projects of artists like Albert Pinkham Ryder, Jay DeFeo, Emma Kunz, Agnes Martin, and contemporary painter Mark Grotjahn.
Dickinson’s paintings draw conceptually and visually from the nature of devotion, repetition, and use of abstraction in pre and early renaissance panel paintings, manuscripts, and frescoes, as well as from the abstract transformation of many of those images whose intended permanence is often dramatically altered by time and 'damage'. In this intervention of external physical reality onto the visual field, Dickinson’s abstractions explore the narrative potential of these exchanges between inner visions and exterior matter, and the subsequent tensions between the personal, social, and transcendental.
The exhibition will also include Dickinson's drawings and an artist book. The drawings, in contrast are executed in single sittings, and with their varying senses of intimacy, abstraction, observation and urgency inform the imagery and process found in her paintings.
Jessica Dickinson lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at ZieherSmith, Andrew Kreps, Black & White, Galerie Michaele Janssen / Dogenhaus Galerie / Voges + Partner (KLF), Sara Nightingale, Lombard -Fried Projects, and Ace Gallery in New York. She was a recipient of the Marie Walsh Sharpe studio residency in 2001-02, and received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1999. Dickinson is the Artist-In-Residence at The University of Tennessee in Knoxville for Fall 2006. |
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