In reference to Shakespeare’s Ariel’s Song from The Tempest, Jenkins Johnson Gallery’s group exhibition, Full Fathom Five, is a visual examination of the threshold upon which society is shifting into a wired communal organism. Not unlike Dara Birnbaum, Nam June Paik, and Andy Warhol’s reaction to television, the artwork in Full Fathom Five mirrors the dialogue within the brewing “sea-change / Into something rich and strange” spurred by the digitization of society.

Through intricate non-digital methods of collage, assemblage, and deconstructed imagery the artists reference themes ranging from consumerism, waste, clustering, mechanization, synapses, computerization, transformations, re-birth, decay, graffiti, and mythology through time-intensive applications of cable-ties, embroidery thread, reclaimed plastic, watercolor, glass, polystyrene, ink, acrylic, oil, and silverpoint. Click here for more info.

Jenkins Johnson Gallery: 521 West 26th Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10001