OPENING RECEPTION:
THURSDAY, JULY 17 | 5 - 7 PM
5601 CARY STREET RD
Bond Millen Gallery is pleased to present: RECESS, a group exhibition of works from artists Luisa Adelfio, Karen Blair, Julie Cockburn, Samuel Levi Jones, Matt Kleberg, America Martin, Cameron Ritcher, Raven Smith, Marissa Voytenko, Steven Walker, Sarah Boyts Yoder, and Cate West Zahl.
Julie Cockburn is London-based artist who works with found images and objects, transforming them into new works of art. Using her own personal visual language, Cockburn embellishes carefully sourced second-hand photographs with embroidery, collage, screen printing and painting to produce her ongoing series of portraits and landscapes. Cockburn studied at the Chelsea School of Art and received a BA from the Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design in Sculpture. Her work is in the collections of the Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Pier 24, and the Yale Center for British Art, among others.
Samuel Levi Jones is known for working with deconstructed books, and his prints reference the same imagery and concept. Jones selects and disassembles seemingly objective and authoritative texts like encyclopedias, exposing subjective and exclusionary practices that perpetuate social and racial inequities. With similar grid-like compositions, subtle contrasts of bright and neutral colors, and worn frayed-edge textures, the prints recall his assemblages made from fabric book covers sans their pages of text. In process and presentation, Jones subjectively withholds information from viewers just as these sources exclude certain facts from their compendiums. Luring viewers with formal order, the images prompt questions about the limitations of comprehensive texts and the ways in which knowledge is controlled and framed.
Jones earned an MFA from Mills College in Oakland, California in 2012 and currently lives and works in Chicago. He was awarded the Studio Museum in Harlem’s Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize whose past recipients include Glenn Ligon and Lorna Simpson. His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions throughout the United States, including solo exhibitions at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art and the Studio Museum, and is included in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Miami’s Rubell Family Collection, LACMA, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
