Jed Lind: Fluid Geographies
October 22, 2008 — November 19, 2008
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Jed Lind A Canoe, is a Canoe, is a Canoe. 2008 Hand cut aluminum Grumman canoe
| Jed Lind The Camera Admits What the Eye Will Not, 2008 (Circumpolar Study, No. 1 & 2)
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JESSICA BRADLEY ART + PROJECTS is pleased to present Los Angeles-based artist Jed Lind’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Lind works between sculpture and photography focusing his attention on economic patterns and their subsequent reworking through various forms of counter culture. For this exhibition, Lind is showing new sculpture inspired by the kites of Alexander Graham Bell, a delicately transformed canoe and photographs that simulate circumpolar star patterns.
In this new body of work, related yet disparate histories continue to emerge in Lind’s practice. Among his sources of inspiration are the provisional architecture of coastal societies, Buckminster Fuller’s utopian legacy symbolized by the geodesic dome, and the doomed idealism of 1970s American artist Gordon Matta Clark and his peer Robert Smithson, whose revolutionary approaches to art-making remain important to today’s artists. The title of this exhibition, Fluid Geographies, refers to a short essay that Buckminster Fuller published in 1944. In this text Fuller contrasts the activities of coastal inhabitants and those of land-bound societies. The former, Fuller asserts, are in touch with the ever-changing dynamic of their environment. Accordingly, they must constantly redesign and adapt their living conditions to survive. Buckminster Fuller’s famous phrase “but I seem to be a verb” (rather than a noun) appears in this text. This essay acts as a point of departure for Lind’s second showing at the gallery.
Artists:
Jed Lind