Exhibitions
CORINNE JONES: FUGITIVE SIGNALS
Crosstown Arts / 1350 Concourse Ave. October 9 - December 31st
Corinne Jones
Fugitive Signals, a solo exhibition by Corinne Jones, consists of a new body of paintings made at Crosstown Arts Residency, and projected photographs of stairs found in Memphis. The ephemeral stairs ground the walls in a pictorial sense while the paintings appear to be shrouded in a balmy atmosphere that signifies the sky. Together, the stairs and the paintings are connected by the concept of erasure. The stairs are evidence of absence. They lead to plateaus where buildings used to stand. The erasure is absolute, but the remnant stairs are vestiges of histories hidden in plain sight. They persistently indicate what once was. The paintings are versicolor abstractions patterned together and clouded, obscured, etched, and erased. They depict streaming banners covered in chevron motifs. The banners present a static presence that continuously beckons, a fixed state of transience. The chevron, a symbol of strength and protection, is repeated with both conviction and irreverence. Repetition is the artist’s way of rewriting and over-writing existing conditions that are rooted in patriarchal systems. These interventions become a tool of subversion. The repeated gestures strip the motifs of their original authority and imbues them with new potentials. The collective whole of Fugitive Signals is a proposition to make the invisible visible in the hope of forming new collective memories.
Corinne Jones b.1972 Memphis, TN. Jones has lived and worked in New York City since 1991. She earned an MFA from Columbia University in 2007 and a BFA from The School of Visual Arts in 1996. Jones has realized public art projects at Situations Gallery, New York City, NY; Elizabeth Street Garden, New York City, NY; Madison Park, Memphis, TN; and Huling Street, Memphis, TN. She has exhibited solo shows at Situations Gallery, New York City, NY; Jackie Klempay, Brooklyn, NY; Tops Gallery, Memphis, TN; The Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, NC and has participated in various group shows including the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK, Tate Modern; London, UK; and BWA Wroclaw Galleries of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland. Her work is held in many private and public institutions including permanent collections at Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, RI; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, TN; Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, NJ; Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, NC; New York Presbyterian Hospital, NY; and TD Bank, NY. Jones has published several editions, Liam Gillick & Corinne Jones, (Brigade Commerz/Liam Gillick), 2010, Plain English, 2014, and Trends in Repurposed Abstraction which debuted at the MoMA PS1 Art Book Fair in 2015. Her artwork has received critical praise from The New Yorker, Art News, Art Slant, Artcore Journal, Ravelin, the Brooklyn Rail, Cultured Magazine and Impulse Magazine.
