The Lab (Venue Partner)
2948 16th St
415.864.8855
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Claire Jackel
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Jan 8, 2010 – Jan 30, 2010
Wednesdays–Saturdays (1–6pm)
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Directions: One half block east of 16th St Mission BART
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“In Claire Jackel's new exhibit at the Lab, an inverted, white-paper cityscape hangs close to the ceiling like a stray parade balloon. While the model's airiness and fragility seem to directly defy the Newtonian imperative of her exhibit's title (which the piece shares), Jackel brings things back down to Earth with the source material for her miniature: an amalgam of US cities that have been hit by catastrophic events. The ghostly scale models and digital prints of paper structures melting into liquid pools in Gravity Always Wins commemorate what has passed while acknowledging that our impulse to memorialize what's lost can only ever partially be sated by what we build in its place.”
Matt Sussman, Flavorpill
In "Gravity Always Wins," Claire Jackel's re-creations of disasters personalize events that, in a desensitized state, we relegate to the land of statistics. Her paper models depict the familiar (airplanes, buses, trains, suburban neighborhoods and city blocks) seen through a lens of fragility. The process is a meditation on issues of control, destructive potential, memory, and social anxieties.
Claire Jackel works primarily in painting and sculpture, using news media to remodel catastrophic events. She received her MFA in 2009 from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been shown internationally, including exhibitions at Root Division, San Francisco and Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas, Mexico City. Living and working in San Francisco, Claire teaches through the Good for Kids Foundation.
Opening reception: Friday January 8, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
