no chasm, no cleft
12 September – 11 October 2009
OPENING RECEPTION Saturday 12 September, 6-9pm
For his solo at Crawl Space, Jansen explores the space between pre-mediated experience and the choices that presuppose modes of depiction. As his title alludes—referring by way of negation to the location whereancient Greek oracles tapped into the unseen, mysterious, and infinite—Jansen is searching for new ways of conceiving or understanding the world by breaking down the photograph, the most prevalent archetype of representation in the present day.
Although the work in the show makes use of several photographic processes such as recording, scanning, slicing, editing and projecting, combined together in several unique techniques, Jansen captures not only the flat appearances of the picture plane but also structural information from multiple and fixed viewpoints. The work is also premised on the notion that how we choose to represent what engages us in the world is inextricably linked to how we understand our place in reference to it, conscious of the limitations of our points of view.
Brendan Jansen was born in the Los Angeles area and grew up in the suburbs outside of Seattle. He studied art at the University of Washington and received an MFA in painting at Indiana University.
Download SCRAWL no.7 by Chris Hong (524 Kb PDF)
Read both the review by Jen Graves and then another by Regina Hackett