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Friday,
June 18th, 2010
You'll lose yourself in
'Seductiveness'
By Lauren
Viera, Tribune reporter
Updated:
12:28 PM
6/18/2010
(Excerpt)
Roxanne
Jackson at Dubhe Carreño Gallery
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The first
of Roxanne Jackson's sculptures visible after crossing Dubhe Carreno
Gallery's threshold is also the smallest. It's a pair of animal hooves
(which animal, it's unclear) fashioned into women's high-heeled shoes
via ceramic structure, platinum-gold toes and two perfect poufs of fur
that look as if they might tickle the calves once they're in place.
"Hoof
Heels" are at once cheeky and
sad, covetable and repulsive,
beautiful and ugly. And in a way, they represent to a T what Jackson's
exhibition, "Blindsight,"
is all about.In this, Jackson's first solo show with the gallery (she
was added to Carreno's roster last year), she shows a well-edited
display of bestial objects that speak both to her self-proclaimed
"dialogue with the grotesque" and a beautiful kind of sadness affiliated
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In the
center of the gallery lie flocked ceramic "Lyuba Twins" (borrowing their
name from the 40,000-year-old mummified mammoth calf discovered in 2007),
which barely resemble mammoths by the time they've passed through Jackson's
studio. The ceramic glaze adds to the gore, making certain parts more real.
Elsewhere are
creative interpretations of Rorschach inkblots and mounted hunting wins,
each as capable of playfulness as sadness.
Roxanne
Jackson, "Blindsight," at Dubhe Carreno Gallery, 118 N. Peoria St., 2nd
floor, 312-666-3150; dubhecarrenogallery.com. Through July 3
lviera@tribune.com
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