• JASMINE JUSTICE: New Kind of Kick

  • March 27 - April 25, 2009
  • Opening Reception: Friday, March 27 (7-10PM)

  • 65GRAND is pleased to present Jasmine Justice in her first solo show with the gallery. Justice cleverly manipulates the visual vocabulary of early Modern abstraction to produce paintings that effortlessly oscillate between introverted, contemplative canvases to vibratory, manic ones.

  • The breadth of her experimentation is enthralling. Opaque, flaccid forms are encapsulated in transparent, crisp edges (Rosie View), precise angles abut gestural paint handling (Fingerhut), and transmutating, overlapping, and interpenetrating lines radiate across the canvas like sound waves (The Camel Walk).

  • As gutsy and dissident as the Cramps, whose tune New Kind of Kick inspired the exhibitions title, Justice's work is built on serious play, where rules are constantly being rewritten and you root for both sides to win.

  • Jasmine Justice received her MFA from Rutgers in 2003 and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her work was previously on view at 65GRAND in 2008 in the group show, Some Abstraction Occurs, curated by Tiffany Calvert. She has also shown at the CUE Art Foundation and Galerie Kienzle & Gmeiner, Berlin, both in 2007, as well as Thrust Projects, New York in 2008, and Kunstverein Konstanz in 2009.