Patrick Jackson “The Third Floor” at François Ghebaly Gallery, LA

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Patrick Jackson, ‘The Third Floor’ installation view 2013. Courtesy the artist and François Ghebaly Gallery, LA

Patrick Jackson
The Third Floor

9 November 2013 – 11 January 2014
at François Ghebaly Gallery, LA

For this exhibition Jackson has installed scaffolding that divides the gallery into three levels. Each floor is installed to different effect, creating an ominous and psychologically loaded space.

The basement level is set with a variety of oversized ceramic vessels. Most have a black cracking glaze that looks similar to burnt wood, but the giant mugs of the group come in an intense variety of colors, textures and patterns. Each mug holds an assortment of things, such as dirt clumps, soda colored epoxy and resin crystals.
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