Jameson Magrogan

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA

Artist statement

Jameson Magrogan is a Brooklyn based artist whose work contains a fractured sense of braided temporality and ungroundedness. Considering the generic or anachronistic, Magrogan processes echoes of disparate recurring modernist conventions through a unifying schematic procedure, as if pushed through the same sieve. Ideas of authenticity and newness are challenged by considering how the personal is found not counter to, but among the social. Painterly languages which have been historically associated with immediate uninhibited subjective expression are glitched, by way of both digital and analog interventions, and interpolated with some other more unstable temporal frequency. Rarely are marks made directly, rather they occur along numerous contemporaneous frequencies as a result of sanding, wiping, masking, or other less material mediating processes. These layers of mediation produce marks, which instead of feeling stacked - appear to be inside of, and flickering in between one another, all at once. One’s initial perception of the image and its chronology are undermined by the ambiguous spatial and temporal tension that the object divulges over time: the fast reveals its slowness, the aleatory proves calculated – never this or that, but both and neither. Magrogan’s work formally approaches painting as a transgressive refrain from binary reductive logic, one which plays a consistent role in the social body’s ability to interrogate our preconditioned understanding of the world....

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