Catriona Jeffries Gallery is pleased to present works by seven gallery artists in several exhibition sites at Art Basel Miami Beach.

Arabella Campbell, Brian Jungen and Ian Wallace exhibit new works, each of which approaches a modernist logic of seriality with a precise mode of discernment that exists in tension with the cluttered social world.

Senior Vancouver artist Ian Wallace presents new acrylic and photolaminate on canvas works that bind the referential capacity of documentary photography to the abstract field of the painted monochrome. Chicago Crosswalk turns to a major urban intersection commanded by near-megalithic corporate structures, the illuminated glass of which evokes a kind of steepened Broadway Boogie-Woogie. In contrast, Support/Surface I, II is a diptych that denotes the symbiotic bond between painting and photography in Wallace’s practice by documenting the working space of the studio at the exact moment it is occupied in the works’ making.

Three new works by Arabella Campbell consider the character and capacity of the medium of painting by way of its most basic properties of surface and support. In two canvases entitled Two Surfaces - One Colour, Belgian Linen Brussels, and Two Surfaces - One Colour, Belgian Linen Vancouver, the delicate monochromatic surfaces contain almost imperceptible variations which index the texture and hue of their underlying material support. The green painters’ tape that Campbell has deliberately left on the top edge of each canvas reflects a faint green glow onto the wall, further integrating the art object and its physical support structure. In Physical Facts #8, Campbell’s pragmatic configuration of pigmented surface and untreated canvas registers subtly its plain, factual structure.

Brian Jungen considers competing systems of land distribution and forms of claim upon it in the form of his twelve-foot high, volumetric tube stack made of high-end golf bags, reconfigured with strong formal resemblance to a totem pole. Titled 1990, the work is the sixth and last in the series of tube stack works, five of which are currently on view at the Lyon Biennale. Jungen pinpoints and deconstructs the upscale baggage that frequently makes the rounds on contested sites of land use in order to contrast sharply the aesthetic and recreational development of "landscape" against a more inherently functional approach to land activity.

Recent video works by Roy Kiyooka, Damian Moppett, Judy Radul and Kevin Schmidt were screened in the Art Video Lounge Programme Thermostat: Video and the Pacific Northwest curated by Michael Darling.

Jessie Caryl