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EXTENDED THROUGH 27 JANUARY!!
THE JONES INSTITUTE + STUDIO AHEAD

Studio AHEAD and The Jones Institute present a new exhibition of three Northern Californian artists brought together for the first time:

Nathan Lynch (clay)
John Gnorski (woodblock, paper)
& Jessica Switzer Green (wool)

While each artist’s work represents the places where they were made, it also reflects the lifestyles and practices of those who made them.

From his studio in San Geronimo, Lynch creates clay sculptures at once alluring and strange, and looking like they're melting back into the earth they were molded from. These works, with their humorous acceptance of decay and folly, represent a mind at peace with its surroundings.

In Gnorski's woodblock prints, inspired by the open fields of Point Reyes, figures sleep in flower beds and dream idly; while his lanterns, made of washi paper and resembling birds, illuminate the passing of the day as they alight on bed stands.

Jessica Switzer Green lives among the sheep pastures of Sonoma. Her woolworks, including a series of large floor pillows made in collaboration with Studio AHEAD, also on display, use the woolen fleece of her flocks. These pieces leave in the natural textures and tones of each season's wool, reminding us, in their unprocessed state, of humankind's ancient bond with the animal world.

This exhibition is split between The Jones Institute, where the commissioned pieces are, and The Jones Institute at Minnesota Street Project, where the above film by Pavló Fedorov revealing the intimacies of art making was screened.