JDJ
Garrison
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JDJ presents a two-person exhibition of paintings by Lucia Love and Zoe Avery Nelson. Both New York-based painters have conceptually layered practice that is, both in content and form, informed by their sociopolitical identities and values.
Lucia Love’s paintings and drawings focus on a cast of characters placed within surreal situations that bring to mind the comedic absurdity of our current moment in time. The open-ended narrative within Love’s paintings touches upon gender roles, the environment, politics and the dynamics of power, often using references from art and political history to highlight the strangeness of our reality. Love’s solo exhibition Fire Water will open at the gallery later this year.
Zoe Avery Nelson’s paintings evoke a sense of movement and fluidity. Colors slide from one hue to another, and shapes shift from abstraction toward a sense of figuration. Much like their paintings, Nelson feels a sense of fluidity, as their relationship to gender exists outside the normative binary. The formal language embedded in their paintings visually traverses through their experience of embodiment. Nelson is currently a 2019-2020 artist-in-residence at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in Brooklyn, NY.
Lucia Love (b. 1988, New York, NY) attended the School of Visual Arts on a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, where she studied painting and animation. She is co-host of the podcast Art and Labor, which chronicles the stories of social justice organizing within the art world and advocates for fair labor practices for artists, museum workers, art handlers, interns, and anyone traditionally overworked and underpaid in the field.
Zoe Avery Nelson (b. 1983 Rhinebeck, NY) and received an MFA from Columbia University in 2009. They are a recipient of the prestigious Sharpe-Walentas Residency for 2019-2020. Recent solo exhibitions include JDJ | The Ice House, Garrison, NY (2018); The Lighthouse Works Gallery, Fishers Island, NY (2017); McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL (2015); and Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL (2014).
JDJ is a contemporary art program created by Jayne Drost Johnson. JDJ | The Ice House is located in a former industrial building in Garrison, NY, built in 1911 as part of a compound of structures once occupied by the staff and laborers who maintained an estate on the Hudson River. The gallery is located just over an hour north of New York City, nearby several arts institutions such as Dia:Beacon, Storm King Art Center and Magazzino Italian Art.