Jaqueline Cedar: Slide
@ ANDREW RAFACZ
1749 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Friday, June 6th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, July 19th
ANDREW RAFACZ is thrilled to announce Slide, an exhibition of new paintings from New York based artist, Jaqueline Cedar. The exhibition opens Friday, June 6th, and continues through Saturday, July 19th, 2025. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.
The paintings in Slide explore how time can stretch, repeat, or dissolve. Cedar poses questions about the speed at which we move through space, the fragments we capture in passing, and the narratives we construct from fleeting impressions.
The intimately scaled works on view in Gallery Two blur the boundaries between snapshot and spectacle, offering glimpses into a world where repetition is rhythm, and stillness is an illusion. Our bodies become caught in fathoms of phantasmagoria as we are given the space to pause and contemplate the gap between vision and understanding, presence and projection.
The exhibition reflects on the act of observation— and not just what is seen, but how it is seen: through an embrace, a glance, a dance— a dream. Works like Blur invite you to slow down and consider the multiplicity within a single moment and the layered dimensions of light and space. Cedar describes herself ‘sliding between slowness and speed’ in her perception of the world. ‘Repeated forms create the illusion of blurred movement – small details occupy the corners of my peripheral vision, pulling me closer in and simultaneously compelling me to take a step back.’
The exhibition engages dynamically with nuanced imagery found within the physical and imaginative world; depicting viewpoints of a constantly shifting choreography of observations, gestures, and dreamlike encounters.
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