NYAB Event - Jessica Jackson Hutchins "Over Come Over"

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At Laurel Gitlen
Media: Sculpture, Ceramics

Jessica Jackson Hutchins employs hand-formed ceramic vessels, household furniture and collage to articulate sculptural forms that interrogate the space between the banal and the sublime. Her sculptures and collages put found objects and familiar materials in conversation, resulting in poetic abstractions where aggregate forms transcend the immediacy of their common parts. The insistent materiality of her sculptures and their raw surfaces yields to a humor and intimacy that solicits an empathic response from the viewer. Patently abstract, the works in this exhibition all point indirectly toward figurative forms. Some pieces originate with furnishings taken from the artist’s home, which invests them with both an emotional urgency and an acute specificity. These care-worn domestic objects bear the familiar marks and dents of encounters with bodies and things; casual imperfections that humanize them. In other pieces, Hutchins pulls prints and casts impressions directly from furniture: She makes collages on prints that capture the carved and inked surface of a dining-room table, and two sculptures assume the bulky mass of an old green arm chair. The use of ceramics in the work simultaneously signifies domestic utility and the realm of historical artifacts. But Hutchins’ vessels also generate metaphors for bodies and body parts (both literal and fantastic) as regenerative or spiritual containers. Hutchins’ expansive vocabulary is deeply invested in the innate human ability to recognize and associate with others and objects.

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