Jessica Rankin
Jessica Rankin creates expansive maps of landscapes dotted with codes, signs, and symbols that refer to the processes of memory, intuition, and interpretation. Mountain ranges, constellations, thermodynamic readings, lines of stream-of-consciousness text, and neurological signals morph, merge, and stretch across her embroideries and works on paper. Expansive and intuitive, Rankin's works are also often marked by swathes of vibrant colour that appear as stains, splotches, or coiling lines. These exuberant compositions spill over to the sides of the canvas, which reveal intricately threaded lines of poetry by writers such as Etel Adnan, Paul Celan, Carl Phillips, Kamilah and Aisha Moont whose writings have inspired Rankin’s work.
Jessica Rankin (b.1971, Sydney) lives and works in New York. She had a two person exhibition with Julie Mehretu entitled Earthfold at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Belgium in 2016. Selected solo exhibitions include SCAD, Atlanta; PS1 Contemporary Arts Center, New York; and Franklin Artworks, Minneapolis. She is featured in public collections such as Saatchi Gallery, London and Touchstones, Rochdale, UK.
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Exhibitions at carlier | gebauer
- 04/23 Antonio Asis / Cecilia Edefalk / Bracha Ettinger / Peter Klein / Jessica Rankin / Leonor Serrano Rivas, The Invisible Structure of the Universe
- 03/23 Jessica Rankin, Dreamwork of Trees
- 01/23 Iman Issa / Julie Mehretu / Paul Pfeiffer / Leonor Serrano Rivas / Jessica Rankin / Jorinde Voigt, Under the Influence of the Ellipse
- 12/21 Jessica Rankin, An Everywhere of Light
- 11/19 Aaron Garber-Maikovska / Luis Gordillo / Julie Mehretu / Edi Rama / Jessica Rankin / Amy Sillman / Janaina Tschäpe / Erik Schmidt, From Hand To Mind
- 03/19 Jessica Rankin, There and Not There
- 11/16 Julie Mehretu / Jessica Rankin, Struggling With Words That Count
- 02/16 Jessica Rankin, Field of Mars
- 04/13 Jessica Rankin, Lacunae
- 06/10 Jessica Rankin / Sara Barker, Revenant
- 12/04 Matias Becker / Ernesto Caivano / Adam Chodzko / Santiago Cucullu / Peter Land / Peter Pommerer / Jessica Rankin / Robin Rhode / Mari Sunna / Fred Tomaselli / Janaina Tschäpe, How would you light heaven? | group show