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Rena Bransten Gallery
March 18 - May 14, 2016Info
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Jeffry Mitchell: Installation View
This exhibition, comprised of a wall installation of twenty-two plates (produced at ZKM in conjunction with RITE Editions), along with linens and sculptures, captures Jeffry Mitchell at his most playful. Conflating tablecloths with paintings and wall sculpture with functional plates, Mitchell references Chinese calligraphy, childhood illustrations, and Queer culture. Innocence and sexuality fuse in a large floor piece comprised of elephants. As Mitchell comments, “Yes elephants. I’d have to say that I had no reason in mind when I started working with the elephant. I adore the Babar book illustrations, and the Belly on Ganesh gives me a tug, the sexy and vital convex opposite to the crucified Jesus’s concave core. I’ve been asked the question so many times and I still claim to not really know why. It couldn’t be as simplistic as the trunk looks like a dick and the ears balls, could it?..” (From Like a Valentine: The Art of Jeffry Mitchell, Henry Art Gallery, 2013).