Jamie Isenstein
In Jamie Isenstein’s ongoing Mood Clocks series, the clock’s hands and face are transformed into fragmented bodies that playfully keep time. In Mood Clock (Purple Face with Red Frame), the artist has hand-painted parts of a face and affixed them to clockworks. The mouth rotates between a smile and a frown in the course of a second, while the eyes move with the hours. The clock keeps accurate time and can be set via a simple mechanism on the back.
Pictured alongside Mood Clocks (Peace, Hope, Fuck You) in the Body / Body / Body exhibition.
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Clockworks, metal case, acrylic paint, wood, glue, matboard
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Body / Body / Body offers an intimate counterpoint to an age of control: works that reclaim the body as a site of autonomy, performance, pleasure, and lived experience. With an unconventional use of materials, artists Jamie Isenstein, Fabienne Lasserre, and Sophy Naess reflect upon bodies through the lenses of feminism, humor, and imagination.
Meet Jamie Isenstein
Jaime Isenstein’s work spans sculpture, video, performance, painting, and photography, considering perception, subjectivity and the slippery nature of animate and inanimate existence. Her work has been described by art critic Roberta Smith, writing in The New York Times, as "cryptic and light, with an undertow of sorrow."
