"That Synthetic Choir -- It's All For You."
New Work by Jessica Levy
...through December 14th
Jessica Levy was born in Omaha on a hot, stormy night in the summer of 1977. She doodled all over everything as a child and teenager. The things that she makes have definite ties to her studies in architecture, time in Mexico working as a silversmith, and brief stint as a tattoo artist. Levy gives the most credit to being born on that night in the 70's and those memories of getting yelled at even though the internal desire to doodle on everything was uncontrollable.
In her most recent show entitled: "That Synthetic Choir--It's All For You.", she is happy to allow the viewer total freedom to attach meaning, or to accept each piece simply as it is at face value. Using a mixture of materials and techniques that are classically given artistic merit, and other forms of fabrication that are oftentimes considered cheating, Levy considers the work revealing in a synthetic way. The viewer's opinions aside, Levy asks only a few questions of herself: Because something looks and tastes like real, does it make it real? Is the beauty that something holds diminished if it is synthetic? You try and figure it out.
