Jonathan Butt, Cal Crawford, and Jeni Spota Exhibition
Brennan & Griffin
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Brennan & Griffin presents an exhibition of new works by Jonathan Butt, Cal Crawford, and Jeni Spota.
Jonathan Butt's sculptures are composed of disparate geometries that jostle to occupy the same crowded space. Made up of fractured surfaces that are punctured and retraced by gridded structures and tubular pathways, the sculptures are left in the unfinished stages of formation, somewhere between comprehensively defined objects and untouched raw materials. In this frozen transitional state, they offer up the promise of nameability without being fully settled into what they will become.
Barefoot in the middle of the day, Cal Crawford fired bullets through several pillows inside the bedroom of his studio apartment with a .38 special Smith & Wesson revolver. A selection of injured and slightly charred pillow cases hang as impotent remnants of an equally impotent action. The resulting works, Pillow Shams, delve further into the artist's interest in psychologically confronting the viewer through his aggressive, yet thinly assembled investigations into the symbols and structures of power dynamics.
Jeni Spota's new paintings continue the artist's use of Italian Renaissance iconography through the lens of Passolini's 1970s cinematic interpretation of The Decameron as well as the patterning and flourishes found in architecture from the period. In her new works, Spota weaves together the sacred and profane through inserting books, playing cards, and dice to add elements from games of chance, magic, and superstition into her densely worked imagery.
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Schedule
from November 12, 2011 to December 18, 2011