Jessica Houston

Unending Industry

2017

Going North in the Work of Jessica Houston By L. Sasha Gora Jessica Houston’s most recent works look north. What is north? Where is it? Is it a fixed place, or something else? He...

Going North in the Work of Jessica Houston By L. Sasha Gora Jessica Houston’s most recent works look north. What is north? Where is it? Is it a fixed place, or something else? He...

Going North in the Work of Jessica Houston By L. Sasha Gora Jessica Houston’s most recent works look north. What is north? Where is it? Is it a fixed place, or something else? Her second solo show at Art Mûr brings together paintings, a sound sculpture, and chine collé prints, all of which reveal a fragile, fluid, and often fractured, north. An iron ore stone becomes a speaker, playing recordings of interviews and singing, and expanding the physical presence of the stone. The exaggerated textures of the paintings give them, too, a sculptural and documentary feel. They record how actions—breaking and piercing, pushing and pulling—disrupt and transform the paintings’ surfaces. By resembling patterns one finds in the wild—scratches across the surface of a rock, uneven waves that form on melting snow—they unhinge any clear distinction between what is natural and what is made. Made with a printmaking technique that binds together distinct papers, the chine collé prints begin with photographs Houston took of Baffin Island. She then combines the images with coloured paper, creating traces of the process of extracting and replacing parts of a scene, and an equal awareness of both what is present and absent. Some are composed of double circles, like looking through binoculars. In Business As Usual, a decaying interior—peeling wallpaper...

Going North in the Work of Jessica Houston By L. Sasha Gora Jessica Houston’s most recent works look north. What is north? Where is it? Is it a fixed place, or something else? He...

C-print collage Signed on label, verso This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.

Scompte 1, 2017 Digital photography printed on Hahnemuhle paper 19.69h x 29.42w in Edition 2/5 Using photography as the starting point, Viviana Zargón constructs a pictorial univers...

Scompte 2, 2017 Digital photography printed on Hahnemuhle paper 19.69h x 29.42w in Edition 2/5 Using photography as the starting point, Viviana Zargón constructs a pictorial universe of industrial imagination. In an exploration of abandoned empty spaces, Zargón portrays an exhaustion of hope as she incorporates traces of manufacturing artifacts from the Industrial era. Through the medium of photography and painting, Zargón creates a semantic configuration of reality as she reflects on the relationship between production, work, and social progress to greater understand the present. Vivana Zargon was born in Buenos Aires in 1958. She Studied at the University of Barcelona, School of Fine Arts and was awarded the annual scholarship from Government of Catalunya, Spain given to young artists. She has been the subject of several solo exhibitions including : Galería Ruth Benzacar (Buenos Aires, 1985); Galería Julia Lublin (Buenos Aires, 1993); Brazil Art Space (Houston, Texas, USA , 1995); Galleria Banchi Nuovi (Roma, Italia, 1996); Filo Espacio de Arte (Buenos Aires, 1997); Sicardi Sanders Gallery (Houston, Texas, USA, 1998); Centro Cultural Borges (Buenos Aires, 1998); Galería Arteconsult (Panamá, 2005, 2009, 2012); Museo Calderon Guardia (San Jose de Costa...

Anne Sager (American, 1930-2024), Industrial Composition, Chromogenic Print, apparently unsigned, with artist's estate stamp to verso, unframed. Image: 12" H x 16" W; sheet: 13" H x ...