Opening March 11 at Magenta Plains, Los Angeles based artist Jennifer Bolande will be exhibiting “The Composition of Decomposition”. As part of New York’s Pictures Generation during the 1980s, her work is rooted in conceptualism to examine the ways in which truth is framed and shaped as it shifts through the mediums it is presented in and demonstrates how information transmogrifies into history as it passes from material and context to another. This is her first solo show in NYC in over ten years.
Initially inspired by leafing through an issue of the New York Times, Bolande came across a striking photograph of 14th Century Plague victims whose remains were unearthed from a London cemetery. This macabre and unsettling picture was the impetus for Bolande five-year exploration into newspapers as “shapers of meaning,” used in works like her film of the same name “The Composition of Decomposition” and her “Image Tomb (2014)” series.
Join Magenta Plains for an opening reception on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 from 6-8pm.
On March 16 at 7pm, MoMA will be screening two of Bolande’s films: The Composition of Decomposition (2018) and Visible Distance (2019). For more information: https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/6548
Additionally, she is included in After the Plaster Foundation at the Queens Museum on April 5th – a group show about the underground artists of the 1970’s in Soho whom were subsequently evicted, that will ruminate on life and property, and an artist’s vexed role in gentrification.
For more information: https://queensmuseum.org/2019/12/after-the-plaster-foundation
