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Conversational Spirits II

Conversational Spirits II

Jessica Silverman is pleased to present Part II of “Conversational Spirits,” an exhibition exploring animism – the belief that animals, plants, places and objects can be enlivened by spirits or imminent powers. Associated with the worship of nature and the rise of subordinate souls, animism is a theme broadly relevant to a time in which equal rights, ecology and biochemistry are serious concerns. Animism has long been germane to art insofar as the most compelling objects are imbued with such intention, intensity and energy that they feel alive.

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Artists in Conversational Spirits II
  • Hernan Bas
  • Luke Butler
  • Tammy Rae Carland
  • Martha Friedman
  • Matthew Angelo Harrison
  • Julian Hoeber
  • David Huffman
  • Isaac Julien
  • Takuro Kuwata
  • Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze
  • Woody De Othello
  • Lily Stockman
  • Claudia Wieser
  • Margo Wolowiec
  • Daisy Youngblood
Hernan Bas
Feeding time at the Little Shop of Horrors, 2020
Acrylic and distemper on linen
72 x 60 inches / 183 x 152 cm
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Feeding time at the Little Shop of Horrors , 2020
Isaac Julien
Silver Hour/Silver Atlantic Coaty, Lina Bo Bardi: A Marvellous Entanglement, 2020
Colored and gold foils mounted on aludibon
24 3/8 x 34 1/8 inches / 63 x 87 cm (unframed)
Unique
£ 28,000
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Silver Hour/Silver Atlantic Coaty, Lina Bo Bardi: A Marvellous Entanglement, 2020
Isaac Julien
Resurrection, 2020
Archival pigment print
63 x 82 1/2 inches / 160 x 210 cm (unframed)
Edition of 6 + 2 AP
£ 32,000
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Resurrection, 2020
Hernan Bas
Feeding time at the Little Shop of Horrors, 2020
Acrylic and distemper on linen
72 x 60 inches / 183 x 152 cm
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Feeding time at the Little Shop of Horrors , 2020
Isaac Julien
Silver Hour/Silver Atlantic Coaty, Lina Bo Bardi: A Marvellous Entanglement, 2020
Colored and gold foils mounted on aludibon
24 3/8 x 34 1/8 inches / 63 x 87 cm (unframed)
Unique
£ 28,000
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Silver Hour/Silver Atlantic Coaty, Lina Bo Bardi: A Marvellous Entanglement, 2020
Isaac Julien
Resurrection, 2020
Archival pigment print
63 x 82 1/2 inches / 160 x 210 cm (unframed)
Edition of 6 + 2 AP
£ 32,000
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Resurrection, 2020
Animism takes many forms.
Hernan Bas
’s Feeding Time in the Little Shop of Horrors depicts two brothers surrounded by carnivorous plants from Venus Fly Traps to the Pitchers that consume small birds, bats and frogs. Hollywood is not alone in imagining that meat-eating vegetables are possessed by menacing souls. By contrast,
Margo Wolowiec
’s weavings explore the healing powers attributed to silver, a natural antibacterial. Interwoven with images of nature and in monochrome panels, sterling silverleaf threads brighten, lighten and act as a spiritual antidote to calamities of global warming and ill health.
Margo Wolowiec
Look to the Oceans, 2020
Handwoven polymer, linen, sterling silver leafed thread, reflective mylar emergency blanket from disaster preparedness kit, deadstock organic cotton, dye sublimation ink, acrylic ink, mounted on linen support
46 1/2 x 72 inches / 118 x 183 cm
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Look to the Oceans, 2020
Margo Wolowiec
Pollinators, 2020
Handwoven polymer, linen, sterling silver leafed thread, dye sublimation ink, mounted on linen support
46 x 36 inches / 117 x 92 cm
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Pollinators, 2020
Margo Wolowiec
Seed Surge, 2020
Handwoven polymer, linen, sterling silver leafed thread, reflective mylar emergency blanket from disaster preparedness kit, deadstock organic cotton, dye sublimation ink, acrylic ink, mounted on linen support
47 x 45 inches / 120 x 114 cm
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Seed Surge, 2020
Margo Wolowiec
Look to the Oceans, 2020
Handwoven polymer, linen, sterling silver leafed thread, reflective mylar emergency blanket from disaster preparedness kit, deadstock organic cotton, dye sublimation ink, acrylic ink, mounted on linen support
46 1/2 x 72 inches / 118 x 183 cm
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Look to the Oceans, 2020
Margo Wolowiec
Pollinators, 2020
Handwoven polymer, linen, sterling silver leafed thread, dye sublimation ink, mounted on linen support
46 x 36 inches / 117 x 92 cm
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Pollinators, 2020
Margo Wolowiec
Seed Surge, 2020
Handwoven polymer, linen, sterling silver leafed thread, reflective mylar emergency blanket from disaster preparedness kit, deadstock organic cotton, dye sublimation ink, acrylic ink, mounted on linen support
47 x 45 inches / 120 x 114 cm
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Seed Surge, 2020
Matthew Angelo Harrison
Dark Silhouette: Transcendent Kneeler, 2020
Wooden figure from West Africa, polyurethane resin, anodized aluminum, acrylic
Overall: 73 x 11 x 11 inches / 186 x 27 x 27 cm
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Dark Silhouette: Transcendent Kneeler, 2020
Matthew Angelo Harrison
Dark Silhouette: Remnant for Disruption, 2020
Spear, tinted polyurethane resin
91 x 7 1/8 x 6 1/2 inches / 231 x 18 x 17 cm
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Dark Silhouette: Remnant for Disruption, 2020 (MAH00153ST)
Matthew Angelo Harrison
Dark Silhouette: Remnant for Disruption, 2020
Spear, tinted polyurethane resin
89 7/8 x 6 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches / 228 x 17 x 19 cm
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Dark Silhouette: Remnant for Disruption, 2020 (MAH00154ST)
Matthew Angelo Harrison
Dark Silhouette: Transcendent Kneeler, 2020
Wooden figure from West Africa, polyurethane resin, anodized aluminum, acrylic
Overall: 73 x 11 x 11 inches / 186 x 27 x 27 cm
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Dark Silhouette: Transcendent Kneeler, 2020
Matthew Angelo Harrison
Dark Silhouette: Remnant for Disruption, 2020
Spear, tinted polyurethane resin
91 x 7 1/8 x 6 1/2 inches / 231 x 18 x 17 cm
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Dark Silhouette: Remnant for Disruption, 2020 (MAH00153ST)
Matthew Angelo Harrison
Dark Silhouette: Remnant for Disruption, 2020
Spear, tinted polyurethane resin
89 7/8 x 6 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches / 228 x 17 x 19 cm
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Dark Silhouette: Remnant for Disruption, 2020 (MAH00154ST)
Martha Friedman
Nerve Language 4, 2020
Rubber and pigment in backlit frame
20 1/2 x 16 x 3 1/2 inches / 52 x 41 x 9 cm (framed)
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Nerve Language 4, 2020
Martha Friedman
Nerve Language 3, 2020
Rubber and pigment in backlit frame
20 1/2 x 16 x 3 1/2 inches / 52 x 41 x 9 cm (framed)
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Nerve Language 3, 2020
Martha Friedman
Nerve Language 6, 2020
Rubber and pigment in backlit frame
20 1/2 x 16 x 3 1/2 inches / 52 x 41 x 9 cm (framed)
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Nerve Language 6, 2020
Martha Friedman
Nerve Language 4, 2020
Rubber and pigment in backlit frame
20 1/2 x 16 x 3 1/2 inches / 52 x 41 x 9 cm (framed)
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Nerve Language 4, 2020
Martha Friedman
Nerve Language 3, 2020
Rubber and pigment in backlit frame
20 1/2 x 16 x 3 1/2 inches / 52 x 41 x 9 cm (framed)
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Nerve Language 3, 2020
Martha Friedman
Nerve Language 6, 2020
Rubber and pigment in backlit frame
20 1/2 x 16 x 3 1/2 inches / 52 x 41 x 9 cm (framed)
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Nerve Language 6, 2020
In the science age, the microscopic and the cellular often take on animistic properties.
Martha Friedman
’s Rubber Drawing lightboxes are highly gestural, almost painterly sculptures, whose use of light nods to photography. Inspired by scientific diagrams by Santiago Ramon y Cajal, one of the founders of modern neuroscience, the works make a double reference to consciousness: they literally depict things such as neurons in a cerebellum and they emblematically seem to dance and breathe like the subliminal figures one picks out of Rorschach tests.
Martha Friedman
Nerve Language 8, 2020
Rubber and pigment in backlit frame
20 1/2 x 16 x 3 1/2 inches / 52 x 41 x 9 cm (framed)
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Nerve Language 8, 2020
Martha Friedman
Nerve Language 2, 2020
Rubber and pigment in backlit frame
20 1/2 x 16 x 3 1/2 inches / 52 x 41 x 9 cm (framed)
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Nerve Language 2, 2020
Claudia Wieser
Untitled, 2019
Gold leaf on digital print
16 5/8 x 11 7/8 inches / 42 x 31 cm (framed)
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Untitled, 2019 (CW00084DR)
Martha Friedman
Nerve Language 8, 2020
Rubber and pigment in backlit frame
20 1/2 x 16 x 3 1/2 inches / 52 x 41 x 9 cm (framed)
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Nerve Language 8, 2020
Martha Friedman
Nerve Language 2, 2020
Rubber and pigment in backlit frame
20 1/2 x 16 x 3 1/2 inches / 52 x 41 x 9 cm (framed)
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Nerve Language 2, 2020
Claudia Wieser
Untitled, 2019
Gold leaf on digital print
16 5/8 x 11 7/8 inches / 42 x 31 cm (framed)
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Untitled, 2019 (CW00084DR)
Claudia Wieser
Untitled, 2020
Stainless mirror-polished steel, copper and aluminum frame
31 1/2 x 19 3/4 inches / 80 x 50 cm
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Untitled, 2020 (CW00112ST)
Claudia Wieser
Untitled, 2019
Gold leaf on digital print
11 7/8 x 16 5/8 inches / 31 x 42 cm (framed)
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Untitled, 2019 (CW00082DR)
Claudia Wieser
Untitled, 2019
Gold leaf on digital print
16 5/8 x 11 7/8 inches / 42 x 31 cm (framed)
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Untitled, 2019 (CW00085DR)
Claudia Wieser
Untitled, 2020
Stainless mirror-polished steel, copper and aluminum frame
31 1/2 x 19 3/4 inches / 80 x 50 cm
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Untitled, 2020 (CW00112ST)
Claudia Wieser
Untitled, 2019
Gold leaf on digital print
11 7/8 x 16 5/8 inches / 31 x 42 cm (framed)
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Untitled, 2019 (CW00082DR)
Claudia Wieser
Untitled, 2019
Gold leaf on digital print
16 5/8 x 11 7/8 inches / 42 x 31 cm (framed)
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Untitled, 2019 (CW00085DR)
David Huffman
Dissident, 2020
Acrylic, oil, collage, glitter, spray paint, and color pencils on paper
45 1/2 x 38 inches / 116 x 97 cm (unframed)
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Dissident, 2020
David Huffman
Peace, 2020
Acrylic, oil, collage, glitter, spray paint, and color pencils on wood panel
24 x 20 inches / 61 x 51 cm
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Peace, 2020
David Huffman
Ideology, 2020
Acrylic, oil, collage, glitter, spray paint, and color pencils on wood panel
24 x 20 inches / 61 x 51 cm
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Ideology, 2020
David Huffman
Dissident, 2020
Acrylic, oil, collage, glitter, spray paint, and color pencils on paper
45 1/2 x 38 inches / 116 x 97 cm (unframed)
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Dissident, 2020
David Huffman
Peace, 2020
Acrylic, oil, collage, glitter, spray paint, and color pencils on wood panel
24 x 20 inches / 61 x 51 cm
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Peace, 2020
David Huffman
Ideology, 2020
Acrylic, oil, collage, glitter, spray paint, and color pencils on wood panel
24 x 20 inches / 61 x 51 cm
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Ideology, 2020
David Huffman
Race, 2016
Plaster, acrylic, spray paint, and rubber
12 inches / 31 cm in diameter
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Race, 2016
Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze
at the same time as or in coexistence with, 2019
Ink, graphite, photo transfers, and metallic enamel
31 1/2 x 55 inches / 80 x 140 cm
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at the same time as or in coexistence with, 2019
Woody De Othello
Clinched, 2019
Bronze
Approx. 4 x 2 x 2 feet / 122 x 61 x 61 cm
Edition 3 of 3
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Clinched, 2019
David Huffman
Race, 2016
Plaster, acrylic, spray paint, and rubber
12 inches / 31 cm in diameter
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Race, 2016
Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze
at the same time as or in coexistence with, 2019
Ink, graphite, photo transfers, and metallic enamel
31 1/2 x 55 inches / 80 x 140 cm
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at the same time as or in coexistence with, 2019
Woody De Othello
Clinched, 2019
Bronze
Approx. 4 x 2 x 2 feet / 122 x 61 x 61 cm
Edition 3 of 3
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Clinched, 2019
A synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a part is made to stand in for the whole, as in the phrase “he’s a “hired hand.” Synecdoches often distill and make more potent the anima or life principle of the whole. In Clinched,
Woody De Othello
’s new four-foot-high bronze, the artist captures a salute to unity and solidarity, a fleeting moment of victory, a plot point in a narrative where they clinched it.
Lily Stockman
Cedric Morris, 2020
Oil on linen
14 x 11 inches / 36 x 28 cm
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Cedric Morris, 2020
Lily Stockman
Chevrolet, 2020
Oil on linen
14 x 11 inches / 36 x 28 cm
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Chevrolet, 2020
Julian Hoeber
Triple Klein Bottle Cross Section, 2015
Flashe, colored pencil and acrylic on linen with artist's frame
48 1/2 x 34 1/2 inches / 123 x 88 cm (framed)
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Triple Klein Bottle Cross Section, 2015
Lily Stockman
Cedric Morris, 2020
Oil on linen
14 x 11 inches / 36 x 28 cm
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Cedric Morris, 2020
Lily Stockman
Chevrolet, 2020
Oil on linen
14 x 11 inches / 36 x 28 cm
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Chevrolet, 2020
Julian Hoeber
Triple Klein Bottle Cross Section, 2015
Flashe, colored pencil and acrylic on linen with artist's frame
48 1/2 x 34 1/2 inches / 123 x 88 cm (framed)
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Triple Klein Bottle Cross Section, 2015
Julian Hoeber
Rational and Ruminating Elevation, 2015
Flashe and acrylic on linen in artist's frame
88 x 38 inches / 224 x 97 cm (framed)
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Rational and Ruminating Elevation, 2015
Julian Hoeber
When the Meat Stops Thinking the Flies Arrive, For Better or Worse, 2020
Gypsum cement with collage and wood pedestal
13 1/2 x 13 7/8 x 15 3/4 inches / 34 x 35 x 40 cm
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When the Meat Stops Thinking the Flies Arrive, For Better or Worse, 2020
Luke Butler
Avatar, 2020
Acrylic on canvas
44 x 60 inches / 112 x 153 cm
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Avatar, 2020
Julian Hoeber
Rational and Ruminating Elevation, 2015
Flashe and acrylic on linen in artist's frame
88 x 38 inches / 224 x 97 cm (framed)
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Rational and Ruminating Elevation, 2015
Julian Hoeber
When the Meat Stops Thinking the Flies Arrive, For Better or Worse, 2020
Gypsum cement with collage and wood pedestal
13 1/2 x 13 7/8 x 15 3/4 inches / 34 x 35 x 40 cm
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When the Meat Stops Thinking the Flies Arrive, For Better or Worse, 2020
Luke Butler
Avatar, 2020
Acrylic on canvas
44 x 60 inches / 112 x 153 cm
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Avatar, 2020
Books embody ideas, stories and characters. In these large photographs by
Tammy Rae Carland
, the form of the physical book appears to have come to life as if it had absorbed some of its contents. These frayed, well-read volumes contain the work of Gertrude Stein, the Oakland-born author and art collector, famed for her relatively open gay identity and lines like “there is no there there.”
Daisy Youngblood
Leaping I, 2010
Bronze
29 x 14 x 9 1/2 inches / 74 x 36 x 24 cm
Edition 5 of 5
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Leaping I, 2010
Tammy Rae Carland
Peeling Performativity, 2019
Archival pigment print
55 x 42 inches / 140 x 107 cm (unframed)
Edition of 5 + 2 AP
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Peeling Performativity, 2019
Tammy Rae Carland
Lean on me, 2019
Archival pigment print
55 x 42 inches / 140 x 107 cm (unframed)
Edition of 5 + 2 AP
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Lean on me, 2019
Daisy Youngblood
Leaping I, 2010
Bronze
29 x 14 x 9 1/2 inches / 74 x 36 x 24 cm
Edition 5 of 5
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Leaping I, 2010
Tammy Rae Carland
Peeling Performativity, 2019
Archival pigment print
55 x 42 inches / 140 x 107 cm (unframed)
Edition of 5 + 2 AP
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Peeling Performativity, 2019
Tammy Rae Carland
Lean on me, 2019
Archival pigment print
55 x 42 inches / 140 x 107 cm (unframed)
Edition of 5 + 2 AP
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Lean on me, 2019
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