Jesse Bransford "The Jungle (for Norma)"

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From Star Trek to the Kabbalah, since the early 90s Jesse Bransford has been gleaning archaic, peripheral, and esoteric cultures for their icons, symbols, signs, and remnants of their deep. Generally images and info are ganged into his personal mythology and conflated and floated without regard to a chronology within a star map. His initial rather graphic visual interests later gave way to a more philosophical research and most recently to a bit more expressiveness. One search unfolds another. All things seem connected. We are floating in space. Jesse Bransford’s “The Jungle (for Norma)” investigates the legendary psychotropic plant ayahuasca and his experience with that plant as guided by Norma, an Amazonian curandero (healer, shaman). He examines the indigenous culture and the plant(s) and their properties both scientifically and visually. As well his personal experiences and visions from the trip, along with their following repercussions are chronicled in this body of work.

[Image: Jesse Bransford "Untitled (Ayahuasca Vision)" (2008) acrylic paint, watercolor, ink on paper 18 x 29.25 in.]

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from April 08, 2010 to May 09, 2010

Opening Reception on 2010-04-08 from 18:00 to 20:00
May 9: 4:30pm Lecture and Discussion with Jesse Bransford and Karsten Krejcarek; 5:30pm Lecture by Michael Taussig, 6:30pm Reception

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Jesse Bransford

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