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Jason Middlebrook
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7/6/2002

Jason Middlebrook

Nylon, London

Visible Entropy II: Three Types of Debris. For his show at Nylon, Jason will be exhibiting a sculpture of the Tate Modern perched on a huge mound of rubble, a second model of a graffitied Guggenheim in Bilbao and a series of large-scale drawings of fantastical debris.


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Visible Entropy II: Three Types of Debris

NYLON is delighted to present the first gallery show in London of New York based artist Jason Middlebrook, following his well-documented installations at the New Museum in New York; the Santa Monica Museum in Los Angeles; and Pastoral Pop at the Whitney Phillip Morris, New York.

Drawing on the history of Earthworks and referencing artists such as Robert Smithson and Michael Heiser, Jason Middlebrook reconsiders the original questions raised by the Earthworks artists about urban landscape, cultural institutions, and man's relationship to nature. For his show at NYLON, Jason will be exhibiting a sculpture of the Tate Modern perched on a huge mound of rubble, a second model of a graffitied Guggenheim in Bilbao and a series of large-scale drawings of fantastical debris. The floor sculpture, entitled Tate Modern 2001-02, is made of wood, styrofoam, paint and earth. The tower of the building is rendered to look like a large core sample leaning degenerately like the Tower of Pisa while the drawings explore the interface between architecture, erosion and detritus.

The Geology of Biology; A celebration of Debris (detail). Mixed media on paper (2001).

Jason Middlebrook wraps the core values of his work concerning man's relationship to nature in multi-faceted layers that inflect the world of art and visual ideas. This work focuses on the death of art in relationship to entropy, a chemical process that is the first steps of decomposition, offering the Museum itself as a tomb and a vessel of old ideas. In the case of the Tate Modern, he suggests, we find a converted power plant with a different type of history, a history of energy. The core sample represents this energy from below. The re-working of the building gives a sense of scale and production and the architectural conversion to Museum is subordinate to the original function of the structure. This conversion is ever present throughout the world in museums, a conversion that is often about architecture and not about art.
Jason Middlebrook has recently exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art (2001) and the Santa Monica Museum, Los Angeles, in Pastoral Pop! at the Whitney Museum of American Art @ Philip Morris (2000). Commissioned by the Public Art Fund of New York City in 1999, Middlebrook created a public artwork for the Metro Tech in Brooklyn, NY, and in a further commission, a 130 ft long painting for the Wellcome Trust in London.

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