Please join us for a walkabout and question & answer session with the artist as Jessica Webster takes us through her latest body of work on the exhibition Mainly Benoni. And Paintings. The exhibition opened at NIROX Projects at Arts on Main, Johannesburg, on Sunday 22 January 2012 and will run until mid February. The walkabout […]
Following her 2011 residency at the Nirox Foundation, Webster presents her latest body of work, which continues to investigate the ways in which painting exists in two states simultaneously. In one instance, a painting exists as a physical entity – pigments on canvas that create a textured and layered physical surface. In the other instance, […]
Despite to the sudden cold snap and rainy weather, there was a good turnout for Jessica Webster’s artist talk for her exhibition, Original Skin, at David Krut Projects. She chose to open the talk with a fitting quote, considering her highly intellectual approach to her ‘body’ of work: “Art has every right to be challenging, […]
Please join us for a walkabout with Jessica Webster on Saturday 16 April, 12 noon, as she speaks about her latest body of work Original Skin. The walkabout will take place at David Krut Projects, 142 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, Johannesburg. The exhibition includes a selection of works on paper and paintings which explore modernist notions […]
Jessica Webster Interviewed by Juliet White David Krut Projects, Johannesburg, January 2011 How would you frame this body of prints in relation to your concerns as a contemporary painter? Critical painting can evoke a special kind of visuality and affect that slips and escapes the attempt to find a linguistic equivalent, and this to […]