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The next exhibition in Nancy Hoffman's Project Space will be an installation of steel and porcelain sculpture by Jesse Small, entitled "Shi Tou" (Soaked). This exhibition features folding screens, chandeliers, mirrors and porcelain figurines.
Jesse Small, Into the Copious (detail), 2007,
steel, 80 x 156 x 30 inches
Small lived and worked in China for a year after receiving his M.F.A. degree. The exhibition title acknowledges the time spent in China, as well as constituting a visual metaphor of "soaked." The artist takes soaked to mean saturated, in this case not with water, but a gallery saturated with his work, his personal concept of ornamental theory in the form of folding screens, chandeliers, grand mirrors and vessel-like porcelain shapes, all of which he draws from his life experience.
Jesse Small, Ghosts, 2006-2007,
porcelain, sizes vary
Small writes about the "Shi Tou" exhibition:
"This work is a fusion of organic lines and circuit boards, cloud motifs and video game icons, creating forms that are a sort of Deco for the 21st Century: antiques from the future. The images that become patterns in my work are sampled from influences that range from my childhood, to architecture and design processes."
"This work is a fusion of organic lines and circuit boards, cloud motifs and video game icons, creating forms that are a sort of Deco for the 21st Century: antiques from the future. The images that become patterns in my work are sampled from influences that range from my childhood, to architecture and design processes."
Jesse Small, Say Something, 2006-2007,
steel and plastic
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