Susan Jennings | See It Swimming

HiLo Catskill | Art 365 Main Street, Catskill, New York 12414

January 22 through Sunday, April 11, 2021

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*“I am not the body. I am not even the mind.”* - Sadhguru mantra

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Long list flowers sing when we sleep their voices fill the universe.

Acrylic paint, yarn, paint maker, duct tape, aluminum mold, drum on plywood, 48 x 72 in, 2020

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Acoustic Miracle Cylinder

7 1/2 h x 38 1/2” d

Chrome rack, wire, string, wood, glazed porcelain, bells, rope, fringe, steel, crystal, tape, chain, chimes, glockenspiel

2020

Magic Sound Tree (Teardrop Crystals)

6’-2” h x 2’ -3” w x 2’- 3” d 74” x 27” x 27”

Chrome rack, bottle caps, wire, crystals, string, tape, epoxy, putty, tambourine, paint, chimes, bells, found objects

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Subatomic Sounds Fill the Universe with Infinite Music

Acrylic paint, chimes, crystals, drum, yarn, duct tape, bells, found objects on plywood, 48 x 72 in, 2021

I Am Not This Body

72 X 16 in.

Painted steel, beads, duct tape, 2021

Shake, Rattle, in the Now

7 1/2 h x 38 1/2” d

Chrome rack, wire, string, wood, glazed porcelain, bells, rope, fringe, steel, crystal, tape, chain, chimes, glockenspiel, 2020

Press Release:

Susan Jennings | See it Swimming

The title of the exhibition, See it Swimming is a lyric from the song Where Is My Mind? by the Pixies. The lyrics suggest the mind is separate from the singer, swimming way out in the water and, like the Sadhguru mantra, questions “Who is this ‘I’ with a mind to which we are so identified?”

This exhibition is situated within the multipurpose facility HiLo Art, Catskill, NY. The social setting allows for a passerby experience in viewing the artwork. Exhibited are new paintings and sculptures by Susan Jennings made in 2020 and 2021. The artworks are rhythmic constructions composed of popping and snapping colors and materials such as duct tape, bells, shells, wire, yarn, porcelain, crystals, and various found objects. All the materials have attributes that have sound-making qualities. When dormant the artworks synesthetically suggest to the viewer a collection of varying sounds. Jennings' paintings and sculptures are percussive instruments when activated by the user.

To further explore the use of found objects, memory, and an activated experience, a selection of works have accompanying QR codes applied to the wall text. Each QR code is a hyperlink to selected documentation of influences or previous performance. The layering of the code onto the artwork marries the virtual and physical experience by accessing the artist's archive. Typically, site-specific performance is a live experience only recalled by documentation. Here we are engaging the documentation, as an active component of the artwork and exhibition. In a poetic context, the code reveals a live archive of selected memories embedded into the artwork.

The exhibition See It Swimming is a composition, inclusive of paintings, sculpture, code, archive, sound, with the venue's use adding another layer for interaction. The experience cognitively changes with time and engagement, revealing Jennings’ fascination with the idea that every atom and subatomic particle in the universe is in constant vibration, creating the largely inaudible ocean of sound that is the universe in which the mind swims.

Curator: Michele Thursz

A Casual video walkthrough

TALK: Nicole Cherubini

SUBJECT: Susan Jennings

EXHIBITION: Tanja Grunert Salon Princess Beatrix House in Hudson, NY

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www.susan-jennings.com | www.tanjagrunert.com