On Tuesday Nov. 21, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews gallerist Jeanine Jablonski about the new show I am a City of Bones at ILY2 Gallery on now through Jan. 13, 2024.
Jablonski talks about several different artists’ work, her freedom to curate the show, and the way she related each work to the broad concept of the body.
This show was recorded on a Zoom H2N recorder on November 16, edited by KBOO volunteer Liam Gallivan, and engineered by Ray Bodwell https://kboo.fm/blog/55224
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FROM THE PRESS RELEASE:
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I am a city of bones
November 10, 2023 - January 13, 2024
Dylan Beckman
Morgan Buck
Corinne Hamilton
Timothy Yanick Hunter
Juliana Huxtable
Mona Kowalska
Jenine Marsh
Martin Soto Climent
Pace Taylor
Isabel Yellin
The title comes from this poem
Flux
Afaa Michael Weaver
I am a city of bones
deep inside my marrow,
a song in electric chords,
decrescendo to mute, rise
to white noise, half silences
in a blank harmony as all
comes to nothing, my eyes
the central fire of my soul,
yellow, orange, red—gone
in an instant and then back
when I am, for a glimpse,
as precise as a bird’s breath,
when I am perfect, undone
by hope when hope will not
listen, the moon wasting
to where I need not worry
that bones turn to ash,
brittle staccato in dust.
Taking its origin from the peculiar language a surgeon used to describe an organ of a close friend and threading through a poem by Afaa Michael Weaver, describing the poet's body as a "city of bones,” the winter exhibition focuses on works that push into the abstractions called to mind by the use of the word body. I am a city of bones is an exhibition that considers the ways the word body is used as an abstraction, as a metaphor, but also as a concrete and singular entity.
image:
Jenine Marsh
Wish Fulfillment (blue), 2023
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Joseph Gallivan has been a reporter since 1990. He has covered music for the London Independent, Technology for the New York Post, and arts and culture for the Portland Tribune, where he is currently a Feature Writer. He is the author of two novels, "Oi, Ref!" and "England All Over" which are available on Amazon.com
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