Exhibitions
First Person, Twice Removed: Claire Lesemann, Jessica Warner, and Melissa Zarem
March 18-April 12, 2013
The practices of Claire Lesemann, Jessica Warner, and Melissa Zarem negotiate the experience of their environments using abstraction to mediate between real and imagined life. Lesemann’s pastel renderings of patterns gleaned from photographs of aerial landscapes obsessively trace the interstitial space between objects. Warner’s chaotic paintings depict tumbles of reconfigured piles, confusing the boundary between conventional tropes of still life and landscape. Zarem’s heavily reworked drawings spontaneously combine color, graphic symbols, and texture, building a rich and complexly layered surface.