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Jesse
Pasca – Star Skin 5/23 - 6/20
“Every
atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your
left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It
really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all
stardust.”
Lawrence Krauss, Physicist
Galerie
Protégé is pleased to present Star
Skin, an exhibition of new works by Jesse Pasca. Pasca is a native New
Yorker and currently the Chair of the Visual Arts Department at Friends
Seminary. He has worked
extensively in arts education for the private and public schools systems,
for Studio in a School, and as a museum educator at the MoMA and the
Whitney Museum.
For
Pasca’s exhibition at Galerie
Protégé, Star Skin the work is
about the universal connection of being human.
The presence of poetry in every work coupled with Pasca’s style
of drawing emphasizes this very notion.
The title of the exhibition and the inclusion of stars is his key
to us to make visible the notion that we all are made up of stardust and
so our similarity of matter, matters. This underlying belief reveals that
the people, musings, and landmarks of our lives are inextricably bound to
one another. Pasca believes that we can potentially see a broader world
with greater potential and perspective when we see ourselves within the
same, “Star Skin.”
Pasca’s
work has been talked about in the Brooklyn Rail, New York Magazine, and
BOMB as well as many other publications.
His work is seemingly “simple”, often with the use of materials
associated with the classes he teaches. However his childlike elegance and
masterful understanding of drawing shows his New York roots, growing up in
the time of the Neo Expressionists. His
style is the perfect lens to delve into the depths of our complicated
systems as it is approachable and often cleverly masks the harsh realities
and complexities of living and market dynamics. This builds on previous
works where he interrogated the financial system in a whimsical way,
highlighted in his acclaimed series’ Landscape
of the Dow and my Heart as a
Stock Market.
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