PRESS RELEASEKendra 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.
Untitled Diptych, 2019
diptych, found wheatpaste poster segments(NYC, 2018), laser-cut plexiglass, tacks
Olysio and Solvaldi, 2015 (detail)
artist’s medication bottles, fluorescent lighting, fire extinguisher cabinet
Olysio and Solvaldi, 2015
artist’s medication bottles, fluorescent lighting, fire extinguisher cabinet
Olysio and Solvaldi, 2015 (detail)
artist’s medication bottles, fluorescent lighting, fire extinguisher cabinet
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
Spring, 2019 (detail)
found wheatpaste poster segment (NYC circa 2018), lenticular photograph, artificial flower, plexiglass, truss-head screws
Spring, 2019 found wheatpaste poster segment (NYC circa 2018), lenticular photograph, artificial flower, plexiglass, truss-head screws
Tears of a Clown, 2018 metal, velvet, therapeutic light, glitter tattoos, plexiglass
Tears of a Clown, 2018
metal, velvet, therapeutic light, glitter tattoos, plexiglass
Untitled (Karl), 2018
found wheatpaste poster segment (NYC circa 2018), plexiglass, truss-head screws
Peeping You, 2018
Peeping You, 2018 [detail left]
compressed foam, found wheatpaste poster segments (NYC circa 2018), plexiglass
Peeping You, 2018 [detail right]
compressed foam, found wheatpaste poster segments (NYC circa 2018), plexiglass
MILK, 1994/2004
artist’s archived breast milk, freezer, corian, blue LED light
MILK, 1994/2004
artist’s archived breast milk, freezer, corian, blue LED light
M+D I Use Drugs, 1990
telephone books (NYC circa 1990), shrink wrap, wood pallet
M+D I Use Drugs, 1990
telephone books (NYC circa 1990), shrink wrap, wood pallet