ANDREA JENSEN // MAX BARNEWITZ & JOSHUA GRAHAM

JANUARY 15 – FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Andrea Jensen | Storms
Jensen explores the cultural disconnect that lies between understanding our relationship with the natural environment and our drive toward economic prosperity. Lost are the subtleties of the human experience, and forgotten are the scarred landscapes around us. Jensen approaches the act of painting as a restorative process.
The paintings are constructed of recycled material, and the painting/assemblage process is done in the spirit of connectedness with our environment, thereby attempting to regenerate and to reinvent our relationship with the landscape.

Max Barnewitz & Joshua Graham | The Animal That Therefore I Am
The Animal That Therefore I Am asks us to reimagine the boundaries between human and animal. This exhibition, named after the lectures of Jacques Derrida, uses scavenged and gleaned materials to dissolve these and other boundaries. The works in this collection examine Derrida’s assertions, shaping a place for critical response – both hybrid and chimerical – to the constructs of art, nature, and the boundaries we navigate in these environments.
The collection asks viewers to decenter the human experience and emancipate the animal from the confines of its limiting socio-linguistic label. While we cannot speak for them, we can explore narrative spaces that do not belittle or patronize more-than-human-animals. Rather, this exhibition asks us to look for the ways the animal looks back.

FINCH LANE GALLERY APPOINTMENTS AND VIRTUAL EXHIBITIONS
The Salt Lake City Arts Council continues to prioritize the health and safe of our community and staff. In compliance with the Utah Leads Together and CDC recommendations, we have limited hours and gallery visits are by appointment only.