Baer Ridgway Exhibitions is pleased to present ‘Send Me a Link’, a solo exhibition of new works by Cassandra C. Jones. From a vast collection of found and hunted photographs, Jones has produced a series of collages and video loops that draw connections between how we create, communicate with and consume photography in today’s “Remix Culture”. Opening Reception: Saturday, August 1st, 2009, 4-7 PM, on view 1 August through 5 September, 2009.
Lightning Drawing 1, 2009 Archival Inkjet 24 x 24 inches Edition of 2 Courtesy of the artist and Baer Ridgway Exhibitions
Some of the works included are constructed by compiling hundreds professional and amateur snapshots of the same subject taken by different people. Ranging from full-color lightning bolts to old black and whites of horses jumping over a fence, she links them in ways that depict motion, line and non-linear narrative. Other pieces are made by deconstructing single photographs, removing their backgrounds and reducing them to isolated shapes. Jones then duplicates and arranges these forms to create compositions where singularity and multiplicity exist simultaneously. There is both an order and a chaos present in the body of work, which overall asks the question, what does it mean to organize and interpret imagery in the digital realm, where the archives of visual information are in a constant state of growth and evolution?
“Send Me a Link is at once a nod to the digital landscape in which we find ourselves, and a plea, perhaps an imperative, to create context amidst an endless expanse of images. The phrase explicitly signals the centrality for Jones of network- or systems-oriented digital technologies in the appropriation, accumulation, and manipulation of photographs; the artist culls many of her images from stock or professional photo agencies with an ease and speed unique to our lived moment. Similarly, the wide ranging content of the artist’s most recent compositions (leaping animals, looping roller coasters, hovering athletes) all share a suspended quality, suggesting that approaches to flight, air, falling, or hovering might form a new common thematic concern in Jones’ evolving practice. She has pushed the suggestion even further in recent compositions: by manipulating streaks of lightning across the night sky into explicitly figurative shapes (Lightning Drawing Series, 2009), she offers another link: the aligning of the practices of drawing and photography.” – James Merle Thomas
Jones’ work has been displayed in various museums and gallery exhibitions including the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Arts in Oregon. Jones also inaugurated the Baer Ridgway Exhibitions Hallway Project series with her installation, Good Cheer. This will be her first solo exhibitions with BRX, which will be accompanied by an illustrated catalog/flip-book with essay by James Merle Thomas.
More information and images can be viewed on our website: www.baerridgway.com
Baer Ridgway Exhibition is located at 172 Minna (between 3rd and New Montgomery) in downtown San Francisco, next to the SFMOMA. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday, 11:00 am to 6:00 pm and is free to the public.
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