Exhibition Dates: January 15–February 6, 2021
Circumnavigating the Capital of the New Southwest Territory
An award winning portrait photographer, Christian’s plans in 2020 to document the faces and places around the American South were scuttled by the COVID-19 pandemic. Pivoting to a studio practice, the artist began to develop a way of making objects and images that blur the distinctions between photography, painting, and sculpture. Framed photographs float above painted portraits; magazine images are collaged in with tape, vinyl, and painted cardboard jumbles; jagged paper strips make a shaggy frame. As materials are shuffled and reconstructed, so too is meaning. We hunt for clues in Landscape Data’s large-scale word search game, just as we dig for contexts or relationships between the mash-up of street photos and vintage pictures in the mural-sized Circumnavigating The Capital Of The New Southwest Territory.
Looks Like Rain, Feels Like Rain will be on view Jan. 15–Feb. 6. Gallery hours are 12–5pm Fridays and Saturdays, or by appointment. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, Day & Night Projects will implement the following precautions to limit transmission of the virus: No opening reception will be held. The number of persons in the gallery will be limited to 5 at one time. Our garage door will be open in good weather to increase air circulation. Masks will be required for all visitors. Hand sanitizer will be provided. All high-touch surfaces will be cleaned every hour. No restroom will be accessible.
The exhibition Looks Like Rain, Feels Like Rain will also be available for view as photos on our website daynightprojects.art, including the option to purchase artworks on our online store.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Jarrett Christian (b.1982) received his MFA in Photography from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2016 and a BA in Art and Visual Technology at George Mason University in 2005. His work is currently traveling with the exhibition “Enduring Ideals” organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum. Christian is a 2018 Idea Capital grant recipient and has exhibited work at The Houston Museum of Fine Arts, The New York Historical Society and at the George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum in Washington, DC. Christian’s interdisciplinary practice includes photography, painting, drawing, printmaking and college. Jarrett is currently working toward completing his first monograph “We Are Not These Hands.”
