Jennifer Bolande

For our Wednesday art post, Dennis Kane features one of his favorite artists Jennifer Bolande. Her work uses photography/ sculpture to create quietly arresting moments that examine instances around the periphery of thought. She indexes and points to fault lines of power and ideological habit. Check more of her work at her website.

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Visible Distance / Second Sight, 2017 Site specific project, produced by Desert X, in Palm Springs, CA

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Visible Distance / Second Sight, 2017 Site specific project, produced by Desert X, in Palm Springs, CA

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Exit Triangle, 2010
 Inkjet print
 37.5 x 70 inches

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Appliance House, 1999 duratrans photos, stainless steel lightboxes 91 x 59 x 5 inches

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Image Tomb (with coliseum), 2017; newspapers, pigment print, vitrine, wood, 43″ x 13″ x 13″

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Image Tomb (with coliseum), 2017; newspapers, pigment print, vitrine, wood, 43″ x 13″ x 13″

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Hand Held Photos, 1994 C print 9 x 9 inches

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Smoke Screens 2007

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Marshall Stack, 1987 3 handmade vinyl and wood speaker cabinets, color photos, Marshall speaker cloth, plastic Marshall logo 69 x 22½ x 6½ inches

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Pink Curtain, 2019; 04:12 HD video

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Tower of Movie Marquees, 2010 Steel, stainless steel, plexiglas, electrical components, and bulbs 15.5 x 9 x 5 feet

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Floating Newspaper Column, 2016; Pigment print, 41 x 17″

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The Composition of Decomposition (photograph no.257), 2016-2017; Pigment print, 19 3/4 x 32 inches

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Appliance Contact Sheet #1, 1999 type C print 15 x 12 inches

“Coincident with Bolande’s conscious deployment of dichotomies is an intense concentration on the meeting places between objects, the points where two differences border and thus define themselves.

Bolande pays an almost surrealist attention to loci of simultaneous meeting and division as sites for potential transformation”

— Paula Marincola, Art Forum

Photo Credit: jbolande.com

Quotation Credit: Art Forum, Something to Do with Jennifer Bolande, January 1989

Portrait Credit: Jennifer Bolande, Chambre D'amis