On the loosely woven floor of jute burlap, Brooklyn-based artist Jennifer J. Lee paints photorealistic scenes that discover the saturation of photos in up to date expertise. The material’s gridded construction conjures associations with pixellated screens, enjoying with the connection between digital and analog representations of on a regular basis objects.
Current work, practically a dozen of which had been on view within the artist’s solo exhibition at Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery, spotlight a private glimpse of nostalgia, a fascination with the act of wanting, and seemingly banal imagery transfigured into symbolic references and objects.
Lee’s work starkly distinction the moment gratification of scrolling by means of limitless photos, difficult the pace at which we devour data. She describes her course of as a type of “waking meditation and sustained observation,” translating digital pixels into hand-painted brushstrokes and stretching cloth to simulate screens.
The artist’s technical means to translate finite particulars onto a comparatively rugged floor speaks to the time and a focus required to provide a single portray. Small in scale, her items reveal stunning interactions between the objects’ surfaces and the woven jute.
Denim, for instance, sports activities its personal signature weave, which in works like “Acid Jeans” appears to one way or the other exist in each concord and opposition with the burlap. Portraying a clean object in “Security Mirror” presents the problem of constructing glass seem polished whereas nodding to the graininess we affiliate with CCTV footage. And a bunch of footprints in sand recommend one other sort of graininess altogether, the shadows and delicate colours of which appear to vibrate or flicker because of the low-thread-count jute weave.
Lee’s latest work harken again to Y2K, an period on the cusp of immense technological and social change as private computer systems, cell phones, and the web turned extra extensively accessible, spawning the social media platforms we nonetheless use immediately—albeit profoundly modified since they first emerged.
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