Jennifer Williams and Jason Varone "Another Landscape Show"

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Presenting new works by Jennifer Williams and Jason Varone, Another Landscape Show features work operating outside the canon of the traditional landscape. Working with imagery and media that investigate the underlying anatomy of a landscape, Williams and Varone emphasize the engagements, interactions and the culture of change that naturally take place in a landscape; revealing these to be more indicative of a place's identity than its formal structure.

As a means of understanding the fundamental makeup of a place, Williams and Varone each combine traditional techniques with new media in innovative ways: utilizing large-scale photography, collage, Twitter feeds and various digital processes. Each resulting work provides a unique exploration of the evolving relationships between a place, its essence and its ideal.

Jennifer Williams holds an MFA from Goldsmiths College in London and a BFA from The Cooper Union in New York City. Notable recent shows include: The Hunterdon Art Museum, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, A.I.R. Gallery, Muriel Guépin Gallery, La Mama Gallery, The West Collection, and Brown University. She is a former 2011-2013 Center for Emerging Visual Artists Fellow, 2008-2009 A.I.R. Gallery Fellow, as well as a 2009 Visual Studies Workshop and 2011 NARS Foundation International Artist Residency Program resident.

Her work has been featured in the Site95 Journal, The New Yorker Photo Blog, Afterimage Magazine, Excerpt Magazine, Photographic Quarterly, and the book "A Stuck Up Piece of Crap: A Selected History of Stickers" (Rizzoli). Upcoming exhibitions include: Urbicide, Workshop Arte Contemporanea, Venice, Italy, and "Parallax Views" at the San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art. She was recently selected to participate in the Emerge program at Aljira Center for Contemporary Art. Williams currently teaches at The Cooper Union and City College CUNY in New York City.

"My site-responsive projects are populated with recurrent structural systems evident on a macro and micro level. I use self-generated photographic imagery as found objects in the construction of two and three-dimensional large-scale collages. By activating transitory, passive, and seemingly negative space, my installations allow the photographic subject to interact with structural idiosyncrasies and social context within an exhibition space. I use photography not as a tool to stop time, but to create a semblance of controlling the passing of time. Presenting an unembellished representation of an object, the work is removed from much of the rhetoric associated with photography, allowing it to engage in a cross-disciplinary dialogue. My work engages traditional photographic languages while simultaneously questioning the ability of photography to accurately represent truth, exploiting photography's ability to represent what is both true and what is false simultaneously."

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from February 21, 2013 to March 31, 2013

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