https://jonahgroeneboer.com J Jan Groeneboer Mon, 07 Oct 2024 18:05:52 +0000 https://jonahgroeneboer.com en https://jonahgroeneboer.com/Home-page-1 Sun, 05 Dec 2021 21:13:04 +0000 J Jan Groeneboer https://jonahgroeneboer.com/Home-page-1 https://jonahgroeneboer.com/Sculpture Tue, 28 Dec 2021 01:22:51 +0000 J Jan Groeneboer https://jonahgroeneboer.com/Sculpture <img width="7360" height="4912" width_o="7360" height_o="4912" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0386a1b4e363fcf265b2813917ee8e8238f2a4d005c7560abaec58a3d6afe68f/JGroeneboer4.jpg" data-mid="128344351" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0386a1b4e363fcf265b2813917ee8e8238f2a4d005c7560abaec58a3d6afe68f/JGroeneboer4.jpg" />Installation view of the human-scale sculptures in Objects are Slow Events (2016) at the Hessel Museum of Art and CCS Bard Galleries, Bard College, NY Seven human-scale sculptures (2012-2016), Thread, brass bars, nails, dimensions variable. STRING SCULPTURES The string sculptures (2006 to present) span multiple bodies of work. In all of them tension and gravity are used as structural support and they depend on the architecture of the space: attaching at the ceilings and walls or weighted and resting on the floor. Materials such as string, thread, brass bars, nails, screws, and gold elastic are used in conjunction with these forces to sculpt forms ranging from the geometric to the organic. The frailty of the spare materials and their light visual presence contrast with the works substantial phenomenological power questioning the politics of perception across abstraction, figuration, and representation. <img width="4328" height="3102" width_o="4328" height_o="3102" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de7edb17a704ec62fcc44aefe54085f268ecae26c9b6322e5a1f7e0ffea8f865/JGroeneboer_Sun_Column.jpg" data-mid="128344267" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/de7edb17a704ec62fcc44aefe54085f268ecae26c9b6322e5a1f7e0ffea8f865/JGroeneboer_Sun_Column.jpg" /> Installation View of Sun Column (2013) from The Dislocated Center of the Material World at the Galveston Artist Residency exhibition space. Two elements: red thread and two brass bars, tan thread and two brass bars, each element 8 feet x 12 inches x 1/4 inch. Installation dimensions variable. Human-scale sculptures This ongoing body of work of human-scale sculptures marks a decade long investigation into abstraction, figuration, and the politics of observation. These thread sculptures hang from ceiling to floor allowing the viewer to circumvent them. Gravity is paired with the weight of brass bars to create the subtle tension relationships that make these forms. They are not permanently fixed, though they are exactingly arranged. The sculptures appear to shift form as the viewer changes position, resisting stasis; a plane curves from one angle of sight but appears flat from another. With sustained engagement complexities emerge through position and proximity shifts which alter initial visual evaluations, countering the idea a comprehensive view from a single perspective. Set in figurative forms, these abstract works call for a critical ethics of visual assessment while simultaneously encouraging us to relish in the dynamic possibilities of encountering ever-unknown aspects of each other. View more... <img width="4928" height="2508" width_o="4928" height_o="2508" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f177668f7fc2c6e124c2974b32c2b109a09c9fb639250d7f5cea3d8f52d0b822/wave-detail-website.jpg" data-mid="128344338" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f177668f7fc2c6e124c2974b32c2b109a09c9fb639250d7f5cea3d8f52d0b822/wave-detail-website.jpg" /> Detail of Black Wave, 2013, Black string, white thread, and screws, 15 feet x 32 feet x 8 feet. Waves These monumental string and thread installations primarily use gravity to create their forms. Swooping curvilinear lines distinguish these works from the other bodies of string sculptures, along with their scale. In The Potential in Waves Colliding the form is based on sound wave interaction and shows two waves about to meet. By registering visually only when in close proximity, this large-scale installation is impossible to see at a distance; it disappears. Material presence and absence is at the forefront while incorporating visual interference and sound wave representation. View more... <img width="4992" height="3328" width_o="4992" height_o="3328" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/53e39597ca016e85ae7a4785d296af5cd138aaa80fc8c29ed624d23aacb93689/4D-Website.jpg" data-mid="128344329" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/53e39597ca016e85ae7a4785d296af5cd138aaa80fc8c29ed624d23aacb93689/4D-Website.jpg" /> Untitled (still of a 4D object #3), 2008, Black and white string, gold elastic, screws, central form: 12 inches x 9 inches x 7 inches. Installation dimensions variable. Stills of 4D objects&nbsp; The Stills of 4D objects are developed from renderings of theoretical 4D objects such as tesseracts, which represent the properties of time embedded in objects. These early installations range in scale and are structurally dependent on the walls of the space primarily constructed using tension. They appear to change dramatically based on the viewer’s position: shifting, collapsing, and re-emerging. These early visual and structural techniques and effects informed the development of the later series of abstract figurative human-scale sculptures. View more... https://jonahgroeneboer.com/Selected-Views Mon, 07 Oct 2024 18:05:52 +0000 J Jan Groeneboer https://jonahgroeneboer.com/Selected-Views <img width="8185" height="5456" width_o="8185" height_o="5456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dec78bb89970e36d1618977bec1b143b44d489bd32ddb6c1b44197aa4c511727/2024_01_08_Kitchen_-Groeneboer_0053.jpg" data-mid="219336028" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dec78bb89970e36d1618977bec1b143b44d489bd32ddb6c1b44197aa4c511727/2024_01_08_Kitchen_-Groeneboer_0053.jpg" />Installation view of Selected Views (2024)&nbsp;at The Kitchen NYC&nbsp; Selected Views J Jan Groeneboer's new site-specific, multi-channel video installation Selected Views marks the culmination of the artist’s durational process of witnessing fluctuations in the local and global landscape, recorded through footage of the singular view from the window of his Brooklyn studio.The installation represents the first iteration of a project the artist has been developing since 2018. Following a period of over three years of exploratory research, photography, and writing about the view from his Brooklyn studio, Groeneboer took up a daily practice of filming over the subsequent two and a half years. The resulting footage highlights disparate elements of the cityscape that take on unexpected proximities to one another through the artist’s window: the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway; The Metropolitan Detention Center Brooklyn; a recycling plant; an electrical plant; the Port of New York and New Jersey; the Upper New York and Gowanus Bays; and the Statue of Liberty. Attending to the presence of the architectures and systems that often are hidden from daily city life, Selected Views contemplates the ways the built environment variously conceals and reveals interconnections between democracy, global capitalism, the prison-industrial complex, and environmental crises. For the exhibition at The Kitchen Selected Views was concieved as a site-specific installation. Groeneboer augments the video’s investigations through engagement with the ambient features of The Kitchen’s loft at Westbeth—a setting that is defined by its own vistas, visible through a wall of windows overlooking the Hudson River and West Side Highway. Through its juxtaposition of two different vantage points within the installation, Selected Views carves out space to reflect on what can be learned by looking closely at what is present in—and absent from—any given perspective of the cityscape. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; - From The Kitchen press release. Installation Documentation of Selected Views at The Kitchen <img width="7891" height="5261" width_o="7891" height_o="5261" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fc2b68ae23fce5a2aae5c8ad393f6a6b7c50a254117e26e97a45dd4d7cb2f205/2024_01_08_Kitchen_-Groeneboer_0067.jpg" data-mid="219336029" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fc2b68ae23fce5a2aae5c8ad393f6a6b7c50a254117e26e97a45dd4d7cb2f205/2024_01_08_Kitchen_-Groeneboer_0067.jpg" /> <img width="7891" height="5261" width_o="7891" height_o="5261" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2f7cb789cda3103294cfdba63e6a750499aa3d7f5efca7ecce152f6c61287091/2024_01_08_Kitchen_-Groeneboer_0108.jpg" data-mid="219336035" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2f7cb789cda3103294cfdba63e6a750499aa3d7f5efca7ecce152f6c61287091/2024_01_08_Kitchen_-Groeneboer_0108.jpg" /> <img width="8029" height="5352" width_o="8029" height_o="5352" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7b6d31be69b06de065731e962cb333b309edd68fbe971f2f645b53187c4eba4f/2024_01_08_Kitchen_-Groeneboer_0120.jpg" data-mid="219336037" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7b6d31be69b06de065731e962cb333b309edd68fbe971f2f645b53187c4eba4f/2024_01_08_Kitchen_-Groeneboer_0120.jpg" /> <img width="7891" height="5261" width_o="7891" height_o="5261" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d8176518fa52d681674936e358ebc17d25c5cebb532e75decf731a00b70f1673/2024_01_08_Kitchen_-Groeneboer_0093.jpg" data-mid="219336032" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d8176518fa52d681674936e358ebc17d25c5cebb532e75decf731a00b70f1673/2024_01_08_Kitchen_-Groeneboer_0093.jpg" /> &nbsp;J Jan Groeneboer: Selected Views was presented at The Kitchen at Westbeth as part of The Kitchen’s Winter 2024 Season. Photography by Kyle Knodell Selected Views was made with support from NYSCA and Canada Council for the Arts. Interview with The Kitchen <img width="432" height="252" width_o="432" height_o="252" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/065e3191f0746a2b13c4e8242b3c3d6018d1d43569baa249a6644480a49c329d/JG-ON-MIND-interview-website-image-v1.jpg" data-mid="219833897" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/432/i/065e3191f0746a2b13c4e8242b3c3d6018d1d43569baa249a6644480a49c329d/JG-ON-MIND-interview-website-image-v1.jpg" />“Reflecting on Selected Views with J Jan Groeneboer” by J Jan Groeneboer, Alison Burstein, Gilberto Rosa-Duran