Benjamin S. Jones "Casing the Promised Land"
Gallery Satori
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Gallery SATORI announces the first solo show of Benjamin S. Jones in New York. Evoking a sense of rapid production and consumption, the exhibition features a group of sculptures that utilize architecture and urban planning as metaphors to probe issues of growth, frailty, and self-destruction.
Jones explores pattern, fractures, shifts, and realignment to question the idea of development, destruction and co-dependence, and in turn obsessive fetishes and vain ambitions. He explores the dualities of the habitat that is at once residential and industrial, private and public, constructed and de-constructed. These dualities are further explored through a language of form that pairs elements that are highly finished and completely raw, explicit and evocative.
Everything Must Go for example depicts the collision of residential and industrial spaces as the white clapboard house is torn apart from the inside by an industrial complex. Edifice Complex, a three dimensional cruciform mash-up of urban architectural styles ranging from Victorian row houses, bland twentieth century utilitarian high-rises and heavy-handed contemporary condominiums, calls to mind the ongoing housing crisis and the resulting near collapse of the world economy. They explore the relationship between façade and the ambition to surpass the accomplishments of previous generations.
Benjamin S. Jones holds an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and received his BFA from the Ohio State University.
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Schedule
from September 16, 2009 to October 18, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-09-17 from 18:00 to 20:00