Current solo exhibition: SELF TIMER
FORT WORKS ART is pleased to announce “Self Timer”, Dallas artist Jessica McClendon’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. This exhibition will run from November 14, 2018 – December 8, 2018 with an artist reception on November 17th. Self Timer will feature more than 24 oil paintings McClendon has created over the past year from her open-call ‘Selfie’ series, where she invited her social media followers to send her photographs of how they choose to portray themselves. Each painting is a means in which the artist explores the elevation of the everyday individual, moving away from formal portraits that have regularly been reserved for the elite. As a society, we are continuously evolving our own image and how we want to be perceived by those around us. The “selfie” has transitioned into its own art form- composed, developed, and directed by our own desire to be seen. In this series, you will find that most images are captured with a self-timer, allowing the viewers’ perspective to become that of the camera , and in essence they become photographer.
For this body of work, McClendon was drawn to the stories inherent in each thoughtfully cropped representation of an individual. Her panels are covered in saturated colors with thick, painterly strokes used to capture every hint of light and shadow.
In announcing Self Timer, FWA owner and curator Lauren Childs stated, “While these are all photographs taken with a self timer, most of the compositions do not reveal the subjects’ face. They could almost be anyone, which I find most fascinating. Typically the selfie is all about the face, but in McClendon’s work, the selfies have become completely about a centralized piece of light, almost like an energetic source of life where the power is being drawn from.”
Exhibition Details:
Self Timer
Fort Works Art (2100 Montgomery St, Fort Worth, TX 76107)
November 14 – December 8, 2018
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- Aesthetically Designed, 24″ x 24″, oil on wood
- Glam, 24″ x 24″, oil, resin and spray paint on wood
- Gloss Boss, 24″ x 24″, oil, resin and acrylic on wood
- Golden Girl, 24″ x 24″, oil on wood
- Green, 24″ x 24″, oil, resin and spray paint on wood
- Metal Mood, 24″ x 24″, oil, resin and spray paint on wood
- Window Friend, 24″ x 24″, oil on wood
- Lace, 48″ x 48″, oil on wood
- Her White Dress, 48″ x 48″, oil on canvas
- Umbrella Man, 48″ x 48″, oil, resin and acrylic on wood
- Rear View, 48″ x 48″, oil on wood
- Reflect the Rainbow, 48″ x 48″, oil on wood
- Ear, 10″ x 10″, oil on wood
- Eye, 10″ x 10″, oil and resin on wood
- Belly Button, 10″ x 10″, oil and resin on wood
- Lips, 10″ x 10″, oil, resin and spray paint on wood
- Nose, 10″ x 10″, oil on wood
- Tit, 10″x 10″, oil and resin on panel
- Dom’s Hands, 18″ x 24″, oil, resin and acrylic on wood
- Sunbathing, 16″ x 20, oil on canvas
- Blue, 15″ x 11″, oil on arches with acrylic panel
- Mom and Child, 15″ x 11″, oil on arches with acrylic panel
- Rat Rios, 15″ x 11″, oil on arches with acrylic panel
- Red, 15″ x 11″, oil on arches with acrylic panel
- Morning, 15″ x 11″, oil on arches with acrylic panel
- Her
- Untitled
- Don’t I Know You