Before introducing the third artist in the collection, I am delighted to announce that The Beholder is now hosting the Art Collection by The Flog. I am really excited and honored to be collaborating with Suzanne Shade who graciously made space for the pieces I have already presented and for the ones scheduled to appear every week. Thank you for your continued support.
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Like a romantic and premonitory episode, this diptych by Jessica Minckley seems to be carrying the melancholia of my current surroundings. As I am writing this from Berlin, I can almost see the same repetitive marks, the faded touches and the colored scratches that she applied to the intimacy of the format, surfacing on the walls of the city and in the color of the winter air.
Minckley works in an array of mediums, from works on paper, to painting and installation. Her practice resonates within the familiar, the self, and the crisis and sorrows that accompany such language.
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Jessica Minckley is an artist based in Los Angeles. She had her last solo exhibition with Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles in 2008 which was featured in Art Forum. Other recent group shows took place at Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles, Kreiling &, Los Angeles, and at Ambient Art Projects, Las Vegas.
She is also the co-director of Light&Wire Gallery whose last project consisted of a series of public installations on view at six bus stop shelters around Miami Beach during the Art Basel Fair. Finally, she recently launched a new online curatorial exercise entitled CANAL.
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