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20/2/2010

J. Parker Valentine

Lisa Cooley, New York

Lisa Cooley is pleased to present a solo exhibition of sculpture, photographs and drawings by J. Parker Valentine. This is her second solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition will run from February 21st until March 28, 2010. A reception for the artist will be held on Sunday, February 21, from 6 until 8 pm.

In J. Parker Valentine’s work, tangible, concrete forms emerge from fragments of gesture, thought and memory. She confronts binaries such as drawing and erasure or abstraction and figuration, and uses these opposing forces of push and pull in an elastic way to arrive at something elemental.

Valentine’s drawings, on paper and MDF, are raw and tectonic. She speaks of “finding forms” – which, at times, arise immediately and yield spare, elegant works. At others, her process of drawing and erasure requires that works be cut, torn apart, broken down and re-assembled.

The exhibition space is parsed by drawings on precariously arranged panels of MDF – a material approached by the artist for its paper-like surface as well as its tentative structural potential. Each individual panel leans against the surface of the wall to varying degrees, supported by a single, bent nail.

Valentine uses photographic images from her personal archive as a solid counter to her drawn works. For this show, she presents found images in the form of silver gelatin prints or as a series of roughly shaped “vessels’ made with book pages bonded to clay. These hollow, bottomless chambers suggest conduits, funnels or repositories of information. The printed works in the exhibition allude to alternative legacies – cultural, artistic, and familial - or play upon language and typography, in particular their ability to be transformed by our perception.

Throughout the exhibition, Valentine’s use of disjunctive, graphic, printed materials is analogous to her approach to handmade, material-based forms. What results is a multivalent vocabulary of charged connections.

J. Parker Valentine was born in Austin, Texas in 1980. She received a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Recently she was included in a 3-person show in the Front Room at the Contemporary Arts Museum in St. Louis, Missouri. She will have solo shows in 2010 at Taka Ishii Gallery in Kyoto, Japan, and Supportico Lopez, Berlin. She lives and works in New York.

Opening February 21st from 6 until 8 pm

Lisa Cooley
34 Orchard Street, New York USA
Hours: Wednesday through Sunday, Noon until 6 pm
free admission

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