But the Dust Came In, new work by Jessica Taylor Caponigro
@ Happy Collaborationists Exhibition Space
1254 N Noble St. Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Saturday, October 8th, from 6PM - 10PM
On view through Friday, October 28th
Jessica Taylor Caponigro’s work explores issues surrounding pattern, repetition, reproduction, and translation, repurposing objects and images as paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, and installations. Interested in the dichotomy of repetitious materials and their ability to maintain beauty while inherently retaining a sense of their own failure through a loss of originality, her work often uses abstracted but recognizable patterns, which are inherently able to maintain accessibility through their familiarity. It is the inherent failure to reproduce by hand that informs Caponigro’s work, breaking the monotony of the identical with the significance of imperfections. Altering mundane goods, combining and manipulating them to highlight their elegance and beauty, while at the same time emphasizing their immanent failure as a quality to be revered, her intent is to create work in which proscribed relationships of the seemingly recognizable are called into question along cultural and personal expectations.
Caponigro’s most recent body of work examines patterns and circumstances from film adaptations of classic literature. While the books are carefully chosen according to a multitude of ever changing criteria, the nature of literature guarantees that not just the artist, but a larger audience has the possibility of shared, albeit varied, experience.
Artist Bio:
Before receiving her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Jessica Taylor Caponigro attended Bryn Mawr College where she earned her BA in the History of Art. She has taught classes at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Olive Harvey College and currently teaches at Harold Washington College. Caponigro also works as the review editor for Art in Print and is the Director of Andrew Rafacz Gallery. In addition to solo and group shows in Chicago, her work has been exhibited in Long Beach, Philadelphia, and Rome. Her work is in the permanent collections at California State Long Beach and the Joan Flasch Artists’ Books Collection. More of her work can be seen at www.jtaylorcaponigro.com.
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