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About the Exhibitions
Opening reception: First Friday, April 2, 6 - 8 pm
Marginal Utility is proud to present The In Acts Out,
an installation of paintings by the Brooklyn-based Artist
Jaya Howey.
Through a quiet hostility towards the notion of autonomous
artistic production, Howey’s paintings present a ludic
engagement with the current trends and debates about the resurgence
of formalist painting.
On first glance, Howey’s installation appears to be
concerned primarily with ideas surrounding seriality and the
object-ness of the painted surface. A closer inspection reveals
that each canvas is actually a repository for a subjective
and deliberate (albeit still very casual) group of painterly
actions pushed just to the point of compositional stability.
Howey’s subtle and considered play with the materials
and dimensions of the built and stretched surface strikes
a humorous contrast with the conversational and often banal
titles that he gives the paintings. Situating his work within
this tension between two registers of meaning, Howey provides
no indication as to which interpretation is preferable or
correct.
Howey’s work engages the preset expectations of what
painters produce in the post-minimal landscape. His practice
develops through a process of self interrogation, developing
bodies of work that do not merely compliment, but often puts
in question what has previously been at stake in the artist’s
work. In doing so, Howey asserts a stance which is larger
and more nuanced than it’s individual parts.
About the Artist
Jaya Howey shows with Taxter and Spengemann in New York City
and was recently included in the exhibition "Besides,
With, Against, and Yet; Abstraction and the Ready-Made Gesture"
at The Kitchen in New York. jayahowey.blogspot.com/
About the Gallery
Marginal Utility Inc. is a non-profit art organization that
presents the work of locally and internationally recognized
emerging and established artists. |
