BENJAMIN S. JONES
Casing the Promised Land
September 16 – October 18, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 17th, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Gallery SATORI is pleased to announce the first solo show of Benjamin S. Jones in New York. Evoking a sense of rapid production and consumption, the ex... Read more
BENJAMIN S. JONES
Casing the Promised Land
September 16 – October 18, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 17th, 6:00 – 8:00pm
Gallery SATORI is pleased to announce the first solo show of Benjamin S. Jones in New York. Evoking a sense of rapid production and consumption, the exhibition features a group of sculptures that utilize architecture and urban planning as metaphors to probe issues of growth, frailty, and self-destruction.
Jones explores pattern, fractures, shifts, and realignment to question the idea of development, destruction and co-dependence, and in turn obsessive fetishes and vain ambitions. He explores the dualities of the habitat that is at once residential and industrial, private and public, constructed and de-constructed. These dualities are further explored through a language of form that pairs elements that are highly finished and completely raw, explicit and evocative.
Everything Must Go for example depicts the collision of residential and industrial spaces as the white clapboard house is torn apart from the inside by an industrial complex. Edifice Complex, a three dimensional cruciform mash-up of urban architectural styles ranging from Victorian row houses, bland twentieth century utilitarian high-rises and heavy-handed contemporary condominiums, calls to mind the ongoing housing crisis and the resulting near collapse of the world economy. They explore the relationship between façade and the ambition to surpass the accomplishments of previous generations.
Benjamin S. Jones holds an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and received his BFA from the Ohio State University. Jones’ work has been exhibited throughout the US including Gallery SATORI and Kim Foster Gallery in New York, Cafritz Art Center at Montgomery College in Maryland, Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, Agitprop Gallery in California, Shot Tower Gallery in Ohio, Arlington Arts Center in Virginia, and the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts. His previous solo exhibition was at ADA Gallery in Richmond, VA.
