A two-person painting exhibition: The Shades by Jackie Saccoccio & Jeffrey Gibson. This is the 1st time they’re exhibiting together. Each artist uses their own dense visual language as muse and expands on it using subjective and improvisational strategies countered by more objective and decisive structuring of the overall gallery installation, accessing The Shades. The title lightly refers to Ovid’s Rome where the ghosts of the ancient Romans are referred to as shades of the dead, their physical description being immense and sh... Read more

A two-person painting exhibition: The Shades by Jackie Saccoccio & Jeffrey Gibson. This is the 1st time they’re exhibiting together. Each artist uses their own dense visual language as muse and expands on it using subjective and improvisational strategies countered by more objective and decisive structuring of the overall gallery installation, accessing The Shades. The title lightly refers to Ovid’s Rome where the ghosts of the ancient Romans are referred to as shades of the dead, their physical description being immense and shapeless. Saccoccio and Gibson take this as a metaphorical starting point to consider contemporary abstraction. The works traverse the real and are fixed on the viewing moment. The paintings are real and of this world. Both artists take what is happening within the paintings to address the space, alter the space, re-invent a space. Ab-Ex, Pattern & Decoration, Neo Geo and Op mix with Dadaist and Conceptual practices.

Each artist approaches the shades from opposite sides of the spectrum. Gibson arrives through the conceptual and mechanical manipulation of his personal mark-making that in and of itself question compilations of identity and culture. He wallpapers a portion of the gallery in monochromatic posters of exact reproductions of 10 modest size paintings on linen, all the same size and one woven version digitally produced (via Photoshop) installed atop the posters. Saccoccio explores the absence of the mark as she paints improvisational images of overlays that appear in her paintings (also installed atop). The Gibson wallpaper and Saccoccio wall painting will greet, meet, introduce, collide and coexist.