Jayne King: Archaeology of the Self
@ ARC Gallery
1463 West Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, August 7th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, August 28th
ARC Gallery is proud to present Jayne King: Archaeology of the Self
My work reconsiders the malleable nature of memory, haunted and holy spaces, and the chain of living connection through a recontextualization of heirloom porcelain objects. At the heart of my practice is a series of large hand-painted porcelain pots inspired by functional historical forms, such as amphorae and canopic jars, that I refer to as my “memory vessels”. Their surfaces explore the fundamental desire to safeguard personal narrative and nostalgia, the history of ceramic objects as vessels for storage and preservation, and the ways in which Jewish tradition informs how I’ve come to understand my relationship to my family’s past and my consequential present. These vessels exalt the unseeable things underfoot and consider the intersecting relationships between social invisibility, utilitarian craft history, and the geological mechanisms that both govern and record activity on earth.
Opening Reception, Friday, August 7th, 5:00-8:00pm
Exhibition dates: August 7 – 28, 2026
Gallery hours: Thurs – Fri 2-6pm, Sat – Sun 12-4 pm
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