Jo Shane
Sculptures: 1990 - Present ||
|| May 2 through June 1, 2019

Kendra Jayne Patrick presents a solo exhibition of archival and new artwork by Jo Shane. Since the early 1980’s, Shane has fashioned a panoramic range of readymade items into austere, astute, and deeply personal sculptures. This is a concise survey of the artist’s work through the present, organized around the studied gestures and inventive compositions she offers by virtue of calculated material and contextual rearrangements of commonplace American stuff.

Jo Shane || Untitled Diptych, 2019 (diptych)
Found wheatpaste poster segments(NYC, 2018), laser-cut plexiglass, tacks

Jo Shane || Olysio and Solvaldi, 2015 (detail)
Artist’s medication bottles, fluorescent lighting, fire extinguisher cabinet

Jo Shane || Olysio and Solvaldi, 2015
Artist’s medication bottles, fluorescent lighting, fire extinguisher cabinet

Jo Shane || Olysio and Solvaldi, 2015 (detail)
Artist’s medication bottles, fluorescent lighting, fire extinguisher cabinet

Jo Shane || Olysio and Solvaldi, 2015
Artist’s medication bottles, fluorescent lighting, fire extinguisher cabinet
Jo Shane ||Untitled Diptych, 2019 (diptych)
Found wheatpaste poster segments(NYC, 2018), laser-cut plexiglass, tacks

Jo Shane || Spring, 2019 (detail)
Found wheatpaste poster segment (NYC circa 2018), lenticular photograph, artificial flower, plexiglass, truss-head screws
Jo Shane || Spring, 2019
Found wheatpaste poster segment (NYC circa 2018), lenticular photograph, artificial flower, plexiglass, truss-head screws

Jo Shane || Tears of a Clown, 2018
Metal, velvet, therapeutic light, glitter tattoos, plexiglass

Jo Shane || Tears of a Clown, 2018
Metal, velvet, therapeutic light, glitter tattoos, plexiglass

Jo Shane || Untitled (Karl), 2018
Found wheatpaste poster segment (NYC circa 2018), plexiglass, truss-head screws

Compressed foam, found wheatpaste poster segments (NYC circa 2018), plexiglass

Jo Shane || Peeping You, 2018 [detail left]
Compressed foam, found wheatpaste poster segments (NYC circa 2018), plexiglass

Jo Shane || Peeping You, 2018 [detail right]
Compressed foam, found wheatpaste poster segments (NYC circa 2018), plexiglass


Jo Shane || MILK, 1994/2004
Artist’s archived breast milk, freezer, corian, blue LED light

Jo Shane || MILK, 1994/2004
Artist’s archived breast milk, freezer, corian, blue LED light

Jo Shane || M+D I Use Drugs, 1990
Telephone books (NYC circa 1990), shrink wrap, wood pallet

Jo Shane || M+D I Use Drugs, 1990
Telephone books (NYC circa 1990), shrink wrap, wood pallet