Under / Press. / With-This / Hold- / Of-Also / Of/How / Of-More / Of: Know

Jessica Dickinson
2015
Hardcover

Published by Inventory Press in conjunction with James Fuentes, New York, 2015
Hardcover, 272 pages, 8.5 x 10 inches

46 color and 107 b&w reproductions
Texts by Debra Singer and Patricia Treib

Design by Project Projects

 

Using painting, drawing, and abstraction as markers of a space outside verbal description, Jessica Dickinson examines the slow exchanges between perception, matter, and psychology that develop in peripheral spaces. Each of her works is developed slowly, meditatively, through procedures that work toward a compressed measure of time that echoes the shifts in what is seen, both inwardly and outwardly.

Under | Press. | With-This | Hold- | Of-Also | Of/How | Of-More | Of:Know presents eight paintings and their "remainders"-graphite rubbings made of the paintings. Every time the surface of the paintings changes significantly, a graphite impression is made to transcribe the surface. These works in turn map the transitive passages of the paintings, becoming their indexes, unfolding time in a sequence while asserting the materiality of the paintings.