The canvas is a body, lived through, lived in, and the page is a body…the page is a body marked with experience, and a canvas or a body is a tunnel, a passage, a grotto, and a gaping wound to be stitched together with thread and poetry. Poetry is the thread connecting us. 

– Brenda Shaughnessy

carlier | gebauer is pleased to announce the sixth solo exhibition of the Australian artist Jessica Rankin. An Everywhere of Light will be Rankin’s first solo exhibition in Madrid. 

Jessica Rankin’s paintings emerge from conversation: between different material and media, between the visual and the textual, and between one artist’s practice and the work of other thinkers and makers. Expansive and intuitive, her newest works are marked by swathes of vibrant color 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 Carl Phillips, Kamilah Aisha Moon, or Etel Adnan, whose writings have inspired Rankin’s work.