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5/10/2007

Xylor Jane / Nao Bustamante

Jack Hanley, Los Angeles

New paintings / Video installation

Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles, is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Xylor Jane titled Supersedure. The show will include numerous works on panel and a video installation by Nao Bustamante.

Xylor Janes’s paintings are built upon mathematical frameworks that employ many elements to form a whole. Jane then tediously fills these structures with dots or lines using arithmetic exercises, such as the Fibonacci sequence or alpha-numeric translations, that dictate color and mark making. Unpredictable patterns emerge from this logical sequencing and the sign of the hand contrasts austere mathematical structures. In beekeeping, supersedure is the process by which an old queen bee is replaced by a new queen that is younger and more vigorous. A honeybee colony can be thought of as a single organism because the social structure is complex, fixed, and the individual bees are simply cells of the organism. Xylor Jane’s paintings start at the cellular level and proliferate outward, radiating from the center, superseding the mathematical rigidity of the underlying system. Hive mind structure becomes the trance inducing form, subjugating the mean to the organism.

Nao Bustamante’s video installation untitled # 1 (from the Earth People 2507 series) represents the beginnings of a meditation on a year long project titled Earth People 2507. The work is a video message in a bottle, being housed in the high security mine, Iron Mountain; to be upgraded in successor technology into perpetuity. Bustamante is seeking an institution that will agree to screen the completed single channel project in 2507.

Xylor Jane lives and works in Holyoke, MA and San Francisco, CA. Xylor has recently exhibited a solo show at CANADA Gallery, New York, and in San Francisco at The LAB. She has been featured in the New York Times , Flash Art, The Village Voice and has contributed to publications such as LTTR and North Drive Press.

Nao Bustamante lives and works in New York. Bustamante's work has been presented at the ICA in London, SFMOMA, and the Kiasma Museum of Helsinki. She has performed in galleries, museums, universities and underground sites throughout Asia, North Africa, Europe, New Zealand, Australia, and North America. Currently she is the Assistant Professor of New Media and Live Art at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

For further information on the exhibition, please contact Sara Clendening at jhgsouth@jackhanley.com or 213-626-0403.

Opening reception: Saturday, October 6, 6-9pm

Jack Hanley
945 Sun Mun Way - Los Angeles
Admission free

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