NYAB Event - Jesse Greenberg Exhibition

Jesse Greenberg Exhibition

Derek Eller Gallery

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Derek Eller Gallery presents a solo exhibition of new work by Jesse Greenberg.

Working primarily with pigmented urethane resin, Jesse Greenberg arrives at a variety of forms via an evolution of accidents. Through regimented experimentation, he produces alchemical conjurings which viscerally allude to surveillance and post-human technologies.

The “Face-Scan” series is a convincing trompe l’oeil of membranes and flowing liquids. These large wall works are at once illusionary and abstract, opposing the pictorial plane not by referencing its own material and history, but by creating something genuinely alien. Instead of producing abstractions through actionist gestures, Greenberg creates controls and conditions for a petri dish experiment; growing and contaminating a painterly stew, complemented by a palette that is alternately seductive and repulsive.

At first glance, objects that populate the gallery appear to be foreign surveillance equipment. From the viewers periphery they’re seemingly activated by human presence. Lenses peer out through drooping colors and undulating shapes. Occasionally containing steel armatures welded with common methods of industrial design, these structural supports evoke the skeletal remains of inorganic beings. Greeberg’s sculptures are as familiar as they are discomforting, suggesting functionality without purpose.

Greenberg has had solo and two-person exhibitions at Loyal Gallery, Malmo, Sweden; White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MS; and Kansas, New York, NY. His work has also been included in Control Lapse, Josh Lilley Gallery, London; Trouble Everyday, Vogt Gallery, New York; Queens International: Three Points Make a Triangle, Queens Museum of Art, New York; I Know This But You Feel Different, Marc Jancou, New York. Greenberg has recently been awarded the Shandanken residency at Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY. This will be his second exhibition at the gallery.

Media

• Painting
• Drawing

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