Figure Glyphs - a-n The Artists Information Company

Venue: SearchLight.art
Starts: Friday, July 29, 2022
Ends: Sunday, July 31, 2022
Address: https://www.cryptovoxels.com/play?coords=NW@5534W,1898N
Location: United States
Organiser: SearchLight

Figure Glyphs: Recent exhibition at SearchLight Atelier & Gallery, in partnership with Mint Gold Dust.

SearchLight.Art is a women-led, community-orientated art organisation that provides events, performances, and exhibitions.

Selected works from the exhibition were showcased on the opening night of NFT.NYC in Times Square.

Mint Gold Dust is a curated NFT platform and ecosystem connecting collectors with artists from around the world.

Further details:

https://mailchi.mp/jaykoe/searchlight

Jon Kehoe

The foundation of my practice is drawing and tracing movements in city space, encompassing a range of processes to sample and form interventions.

The work stems from a fascination with the centres we construct, the forms they take and what they reveal about us, at a time when more than half of the world's population live in cities, a proportion that is expected to rise to three quarters by 2050.

Fed back into the production of video work, installations, drawings, prints and books, ongoing research is engaged into the alternative utilisation of city space.

JAYKOE

Current work explores globalisation through its accelerated impact on city space. Operating at the intersection of urbanisation, postcolonialism and interculturalism, urban-spatial movements are sampled and traced within densely populated and expanding cities. Areas of research are mapped out across the metropolis, shifting contours that fluctuate over the gridlines of the city like the movements of Parkour, probing the structures of the centres we build up, the forms they take and questioning what they reveal about us. Drawing is the foundation of the work, overlaid with an approach to each project that actively combines and assimilates new materials and techniques in experimental forms. This interdisciplinary approach ranges through drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, installation, neon, performance, books and other works on paper. Enquiries into movements of cultural resistance are layered with a background as a sound-system DJ. This resonates throughout the work, formally with the application of the techniques used in audio sampling to visual material and conceptually with pirate radio as a metaphor for the notion of networked performances across global cities, all with the potential to construct spaces of positive interaction between different groups and cultures.