May 18–June 10, 2023
Opening reception: Thursday, May 18, 7–10pm
Viewing hours: Fridays and Saturdays, 12–5pm, or by appointment
Day & Night Projects is proud to present Jane Foley & Jordan Stubbs: On Cleaning House with a Match. These two friends met in Atlanta almost ten years ago and have shared an intimate art dialogue ever since—creating gestures of care and destruction in direct contact with their materials of choice.
The artists share a deep love of coaxing meaning out of materials—Foley finding the contradictions in glowing neon light tubes entangled with streams of hardened concrete; Stubbs working with his recently deceased grandfather’s lumber and carpentry tools. Each artist’s craft is like a collaboration with their media, following the material’s inherent properties to guide the works toward a sense of autonomy.
On Cleaning House with a Match will open with a free, public reception on Thursday, May 18, 7–10pm. Viewing hours are Fridays and Saturdays,12–5pm, or by appointment.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Jane Foley (b. 1985, New Orleans) is a sound, sculpture, and new media artist living in Atlanta, Georgia (US). Foley has created sound sculptures for the Architecture Triennale in Lisbon, Portugal and La Friche Belle de Mai in Marseille, France with Zurich-based Sound Development City, as well as composed sounds that played in taxicabs throughout the 5th Marrakech Biennale in Morocco. In Atlanta, they have created public works for the High Museum, Dashboard, Flux Projects, Atlanta Contemporary, and the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport, among others. Foley currently teaches sculpture and digital media at Emory University, after completing an MFA in interdisciplinary sculpture, video, and sound from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Jordan Stubbs (b.1993, Sacramento, CA) lives and works in Daytona Beach, Florida. He graduated from Georgia State University with a BFA in photography in 2014. His work bubbles up from the deep well of uncertainty and discomfort at the core of his being. Stubbs describes his practice as meandering, never settling on one mode of working for long, but always promising to return. Visual motifs reappear across projects: dancerly or anguished figures, flowers, -drops, bolts of energy, an eclipsed Sun, an archway. The joy in his practice is remixing the symbols and translating them across mediums to achieve and fold in new meaning. Often, Stubbs personifies his pieces and finds camaraderie with the materials that comprise them. What is happening to the materials he uses, and have you ever felt that way yourself? He has shown work with the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Hi-Lo Press, MINT Gallery, and Suede Gallery in Edinburgh, UK.
