NYAB Event - Jamie Isenstein “ ”

Jamie Isenstein “ ”

Andrew Kreps Gallery

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Andrew Kreps Gallery presents “ ”, Jamie Isenstein’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. The show is comprised of three new works, each questioning the traditional divisions between sculpture, performance, and video. Together the individual works create an installation that skewers classic conventions of the gallery: the "sign-in book", the "abstract sculpture", and the "installation shot".
Isenstein is known for blurring the lines between performance and sculpture, often through her use of her own body as a ready-made object. In referencing and appropriating current strains of contemporary abstract sculpture that combine organic forms and found objects, Dancing Pop-up Fishing Sculpture, 2010,acts like a snowball that has picked up what it has rolled over: human body parts, a hobo/clown costume, bird guano, a snake in a can gag. The sculpture is “holding” a life preserver, which reads alternately “Wishing I was Fishing” and “Gone Fishing” and is thus in a perpetual state of limbo- waiting to fish, or waiting for parts of itself to return from fishing. This gives life to a normally static object as it layers and weaves formal and conceptual concerns of sculpture, performance, abstraction, and representation.

Media

• Sculpture
• Installation

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