Jessica Dickinson "Here"

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The title of Jessica Dickinson's debut solo exhibition with the gallery, "Here" refers to central ideas that pervade Dickinson's largely abstract paintings, which are steeped in everyday perceptual phenomena. Searching for meaning in the minor and overlooked, each piece foregrounds both inward and outward shifts in awareness through time. Reflecting an approach to seeing, sensing and abstraction that is more migratory then transcendental, the paintings suggest association and resist naming. Here also alludes to the present tense, inviting the viewer to be present byoffering a space for slow observation.

The paintings explore the exchange between perception and psychology that develop in quotidian spaces such as windows and doors. The work resounds with portals, openings, thresholds, barriers and border spaces that are crossed orentered through extensive manipulation of the painting surface. Repeated marks, stains, illuminations, and traces refuse the dichotomy of inside/outside, both visually and materially. Three oil paintings onlimestone polymer, "Distance-Come Closer", "Here", and "Flash-Shift", operate almost as three times of the day and three different modes of perception. Four mixed media works on paper, "Screen", "Shift", "Before-Almost", and "See It", create meditative fields that emerge, reveal, and oscillate.

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from August 11, 2009 to September 27, 2009

Opening Reception on 2009-09-12 from 18:00 to 20:00

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