Xylor Jane this weekend at Jack Hanley, LA

For any of you that liked the Xylor Jane feature in ANPQ #7, if you're in the Los Angeles area this weekend you'll have a chance to see her work in the flesh. The opening is Saturday night at Jack Hanley in Chinatown.


Jack Hanley Gallery
945 Sun Mun Way
Los Angeles, CA 90012
213.626.0403
www.jackhanley.com

Supersedure: New paintings by Xylor Jane
Video Installation by Nao Bustamante
October 6 –November 10, 2007
Opening reception: Saturday, October 6, 6-9pm

Xylor Janes’s paintings are built upon mathematical frameworks that employ many elements to form a whole. Jane then tediously fills these structures with dots or lines using arithmetic exercises, such as the Fibonacci sequence or alpha-numeric translations, that dictate color and mark making. Unpredictable patterns emerge from this logical sequencing and the sign of the hand contrasts austere mathematical structures. In beekeeping, supersedure is the process by which an old queen bee is replaced by a new queen that is younger and more vigorous. A honeybee colony can be thought of as a single organism because the social structure is complex, fixed, and the individual bees are simply cells of the organism. Xylor Jane’s paintings start at the cellular level and proliferate outward, radiating from the center, superseding the mathematical rigidity of the underlying system. Hive mind structure becomes the trance inducing form, subjugating the mean to the organism.

Xylor Jane lives and works in Holyoke, MA and San Francisco, CA. Xylor has recently exhibited a solo show at CANADA Gallery, New York, and in San Francisco at The LAB. She has been featured in the New York Times , Flash Art, The Village Voice and has contributed to publications such as LTTR and North Drive Press.