October 1,
2010
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
Bill Jenkins
Lids and
Dots
October 15 - November 12, 2010
Opening
Friday, October 15th,
6-9pm
The Jancar Jones Gallery is pleased to
announce an exhibit by New York-based artist, Bill Jenkins, titled Lids and
Dots. This will be his second solo exhibit with the gallery. The exhibit
will include a number of new sculptures and a site-specific painting spanning
the walls of the
gallery.
The sculptures consist of two parts each:
found, industrially manufactured containers and paper mache lids. The
containers are excessively common, produced to create and fit into a modular
way of life. In contrast, the forms of the lids do not adhere to the same
planned functionality, but occur as a result or as a remnant of a processes
carried out in private, in the artist’s studio. The mass-produced objects
stand in as architectural microcosm, the paper mache lids the result of
subjective work. Combined, they explore the relationship between a
physically defined space and the particular possibilities for action it
produces, while presenting an open question about the physical limits and
effects of human behavior within a built
environment.
By spray painting dots directly onto the
walls of the gallery, Jenkins continues an ongoing experiment in wresting
control of the architecture from the exhibition space itself. Irregularly
arrayed, the dots simultaneously activate a heightened awareness of the space
while also ambiguously softening and actively shifting its inherently rigid
architectural
structure.
Bill Jenkins received an MFA from UC
Berkeley in 2007 and a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2003.
His work has recently been shown at Feature Inc. and Laurel Gitlen, both in
New
York.
For more information please contact Eric
Renehan Jones or Ava Jancar at info@jancarjones.com or visit www.jancarjones.com. Gallery hours: Thursday -
Saturday, noon - 6pm and by
appointment.
