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Jesse Wine: Imperfect List at SculptureCenter, New York

October 28, 2020
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  • Jesse Wine: Imperfect List at SculptureCenter, New York, 2020. Courtesy the artist, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, and The Modern Institute, Glasgow. Photos by Dario Lasagni
  • Installation view. Courtesy the artist, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, and The Modern Institute, Glasgow.
  • Installation view. Courtesy the artist, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, and The Modern Institute, Glasgow.
  • Installation view. Courtesy the artist, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, and The Modern Institute, Glasgow.
  • Installation view. Courtesy the artist, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, and The Modern Institute, Glasgow.
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  • Installation view. Courtesy the artist, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, and The Modern Institute, Glasgow.
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Jesse Wine: Imperfect List is on view at SculptureCenter, New York

September 24, 2020 – January 25, 2021

SculptureCenter presents new sculptures by British-born, New Yorkbased artist Jesse Wine in artist’s first U.S. solo museum exhibition

Imperfect List continues British-born, New York-based artist Jesse Wine’s open and intuitive approach to sculpture, building upon a fifteen-year engagement with clay as his primary artmaking material. The exhibition brings together a wide variety of works, ranging from larger-than-life, abstracted figures, to segmented, floor-bound works displaying fragments of dexterous limbs and living room furniture, to modernist buildings and a fleet of small trucks.

Installed across SculptureCenter’s disorienting lower level galleries, Wine’s exhibition stages an anxious relationship between rest and activity. In one work, an angular apartment tower sits on top of a giant, sleeping head. Nearby, two monumental, leggy sculptures casually convene as vehicles pass below. Throughout, limbs and objects that seem to be spent, submissive, or otherwise idle evoke a churning matrix of stifled aspirations: to move from one’s childhood home to the city, to couple up, to reconcile productive efforts with un(re)productive sexuality, to be on call should an opportunity at success arise. Pairings of works in the exhibition pull the viewer back and forth between domestic interiors and domineering public settings, dissolving the human form into and out of the spaces that condition it. Though Wine’s distinctive approach to free-formed ceramic produces suggestive postures and attenuated gestures (count the number of fingers and toes in the exhibition), the work often appears malleable, sometimes even making itself. Wine hides its structure under alluring surfaces coated with admixtures of paint, minerals, and metals that wryly hint at a longer, “timeless” history of sculpture.

In a subset of works that resemble or emulate buildings, Wine’s work thematically explores the excessive productive force that gives the city its shape. Together, the works reflect a fluid and anthropomorphic proximity to bombastic construction in the urban landscape, as well as its pragmatic formal deviations. In analogies made between limbs, joints, and architectural features, Wine produces allegories of individuals’ purchase on the space above, below, and around themselves. His works evoke what architect and artist Madelon Vriesendorp has described as the “sexual ecstasy of cities.” Vriesendorp cautions, however, that “Disaster follows ecstasy. Like form follows function.”

Imperfect List, the exhibition’s title, comes from a 1989-90 spoken-word track by Big Hard Excellent Fish, a short-lived project of British musicians Pete Wylie and Robin Guthrie. Over a downtempo beat, the voice of Liverpool musician and artist Josie Jones recites a public declaration of micro- and macroaffronts to personal dignity: “Heartbreaking, lying friend,” “acid rain,” “gutwrenching disappointment,” and “the Tory invention of the non-working class,” among many others. In alignment with the song, Wine’s exhibition posits sculpture as a paradoxically over-productive yet ruminative activity where capitalistic desires are cyclically constructed, then run on empty and deformed — but not yet destroyed.

Jesse Wine: Imperfect List is artist’s first U.S. solo museum exhibition. The exhibition is curated by Kyle Dancewicz, Interim Director.


Jesse Wine was born in 1983 in Chester, England. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Forthcoming solo exhibitions include Simone Subal, New York (May 2020); and The Modern Institute, Glasgow (November 2020). Recent solo exhibitions include: Prosper, Phantom Limb, Simone Subal Gallery, New York (2017); Young man red, Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, The Netherlands (2016); Working title, not sure yet, Mary Mary, Glasgow (2016); and Wonderful Audience Member, Soy Capitán, Berlin (2016). Select group exhibitions include Further Thoughts on Earthy Materials, GAK, Bremen (2018); Lynda Benglis, Erika Verzutti, Jesse Wine, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, Rio de Janeiro (2017); Regarding George Ohr: Contemporary Ceramics in the Spirit of the Potter, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida (2017); Battersea Power Station and CASS Sculpture Foundation – Powerhouse Commission, London (2017); That Continuous Thing: Artists and the Ceramics Studio, 1920 – Today, TATE St Ives, Cornwall (2017); Jesse Wine | Peter Voulkos, Parrasch Heijnen, Los Angeles (2017); Sludgy Portrait of Himself, Museum of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (2017); Paul Heyer, Jeanette Mundt, Jesse Wine, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, (2016); and Luster – Clay in Sculpture Today, Fundament Foundation, Tilburg, The Netherlands (2016).

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Long Island City, NY 11101

Photos by Dario Lasagni

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