Jill Downen: Hard Hat Optional at Bruno David Gallery, April 10-May 9, 2009. The gallery’s website shows has two pages, each showing different works in the exhibit. One for the front room, and one for the main gallery. I’m probably not going to get a chance to make it over to the STL to see the show. So, just judging from jpegs, it’s the Hybrida drawings in the front room that seem to me to be the most exciting. Like that unnerving, overly flesh-y minimalism. I’m just not sure if the works in the main gallery have that uncanny I-don’t-know-what. Check out her website to see if you agree.
Here are a couple of Hybrida.
I’m ready if anyone wants to push back against that assertion that this body of work is more neutral than her earlier work. I want to like it.
Well…based on the documentation of her earlier shows, it looks like she’s turning a corner here (pardon the pun..?). More sculpture, less installation. The drawings are elegant, for sure.
I’m prepared to be totally off-base here. There really and truly could be some alchemy between white walls, white plaster and blond plywood that’s just lost on the internet. Looking at the image I put at the top of the post, and that ugly pale purple shade of the floor, I wonder how effective the images are at conveying a real sense of her sculptures.
my company takes offense at your choice of title!!!
just kidding…. i just try to keep up on hard hat and safety news and stumbled across your site…
nice creative work and different than what i usually get to look at..
cheers,
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She needed a pink hard hat… turn that corner baby…