Jamie Isenstein
Body / Body / Body
In this three-person exhibition, Jamie Isenstein's work explores the boundaries between object and subject, juxtaposing humor and dread, phantasmagoria and banality. Employing funhouse mirrors, Isenstein stages pre-AI analog illusions that imagine unbridled bodily autonomy. Bodies become uncanny in her surreal photographs and playful clocks, while her video conjures a vaudevillian tango of disembodied limbs.
About the Artist
Jaime Isenstein’s (b. 1975, Portland, Oregon) work spans sculpture, video, performance, painting, and photography, considering perception, subjectivity and the slippery nature of animate and inanimate existence. Solo exhibitions include the Institute of Arts, New York University, Gluck50, Milan, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, Hartford, Connecticut (2017); Andrew Kreps, (2015); Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, (2015); and the Hammer Museum (2007), among others. Isenstein participated in the 2010 Liverpool Biennial, Palais de Toyko, Paris, and Greater New York, MoMA, PS1, New York. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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