A good friend of mine, Cassie Jones is having a show of new work that  opens this Thurday at Red Flagg Gallery on 28th St. Hope to see you all there!

Cassie Jones, Next to Nothing (2008), Acrylic, Felt and Staples on Panel, 36 x 32 x 13”

Cassie Jones, Next to Nothing (2008), Acrylic, Felt and Staples on Panel, 36 x 32 x 13”

Inspired by scientific illustration and popular design, Cassie Jones’ paintings on paper are spontaneous yet iconic–playful emblems that seem to diagram arcane meanings and relationships. They are also a way of working, says the artist, that allows “mutations, hybrids, and synthetic forms to take shape.”

The paintings on panels explore a similar interest in hybrid forms, but are arrived at in a different way. Made of upholstered, quilted, and painted felt, their rounded, convex surfaces suggest a powerful sense of fertility and growth. Playfully absurd but also faintly sinister, the paintings are characterized by other contradictory elements as well—two-dimensional yet sculptural, reductive yet excessive, familiar yet un-nameable, naturalistic but also abstract—producing effects that are aesthetically pleasing but which also evade easy categorization.

Cassie Jones, Standard Deviations
Thursday, February 12, 2009
5:00pm – 8:00pm

RedFlagg 638 West 28th Street, Ground Floor, between 11th & 12th Avenues