In the Studio | Jake Wood-Evans - Part 2

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The artist’s lens is the singular thread that weaves itself through The Edge of Reality. Jake Wood-Evans is not interested in replications, but in excavations. With each piece the artist removes layer after layer to extricate an artwork from any fixed interpretation. Ghosts of the original reference material remain but are shrouded by unfamiliar atmospheres and altered compositions. The reference material for The Edge of Reality includes selections from the Western classical art canon. Works by Joshua Reynolds, John Singer Sargent, George Stubbs and J.W. Waterhouse seem to swim before us. However, Wood-Evans only uses these images as starting points, blending the familiar with something altogether new to unsettle any preconceived narratives. In doing so, the artist meditates on the contemporary mindset that has perhaps dismissively categorised and even derided the original reference material. For example, with After Carnation, Lily, Lily Rose, in green, after Sargent, Wood-Evans leans into a subject we might consider overly sentimental, assessing the emotional ties to imagery that has now been largely rejected by the contemporary artworld.

'The Edge of Reality' opens at Unit London Mayfair on March 22nd.

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