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Consistent with his past work, this sculptural installation stems from a combination of ingrained sources; Townsend pulls obscure references from history, literature, pop culture and song lyrics, and restructures them, forging a new configuration from the resonating parts. Comparable to stringing excerpts together from different books to transform the narrative, the work re-contextualizes the disparate elements to form a coherent entity – alluding to the increasing difficulties of raising protest against the pervasive greed within the global capitalist system. Its citizens seem to be left alone in the debris of a global shipwreck, fighting for resources and never ceasing to compete within an economic system that creates division and discourages collaboration.
Jade Townsend was born in Iowa and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He holds a BFA from Iowa State University in Ames, IA and an MFA from Hunter College, New York, NY. His installations have appeared in numerous exhibitions, both nationally and internationally, including Chelsea Visits Havana as part of the 10th Havana Biennial, Museo del Bellas Artes, Havanna, Cuba; Born Between..., Cress Gallery, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN; The Peekskill Project, organized by the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY; Nature Interrupted, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY; Waste Not, Want Not, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY and Born Between Piss and Shit, Art of This Gallery, Minneapolis, MN. Most recently, Townsend participated in Duke Riley’s Those About to Die Salute You at the Queens Museum of Art in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY.
September 10 – October 17, 2009
Opening reception: Thursday, September 10, 6 – 9 PM
Priska C Juschka Fine Art
547 West 27th Street, 2nd Fl.
New York, NY 10001
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F: +1 212 594 5452
