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From Star Trek to the Kabbalah, since the early ’90s Jesse Bransford has been combing archaic, peripheral, and esoteric cultures for their icons, symbols, signs, and remnants of their deep. Generally images and info are ganged into his personal mythology and conflated and floated without regard for chronology within a star map. His initial rather graphic visual interests later gave way to a more philosophical research and most recently to a bit more expressiveness. One search unfolds another. All things seem connected. We are floating in space. Bransford’s “The Jungle (for Norma)” investigates the legendary psychotropic plant ayahuasca and his experience with that plant as guided by Norma, an Amazonian curandero (healer, shaman). He examines the indigenous culture and the plant(s) and their properties both scientifically and visually. His personal experiences and visions during the trip, along with their subsequent repercussions, are chronicled in this body of work. “The Jungle (for Norma)” is Jesse Bransford’s sixth solo exhibition with Feature Inc. Bransford was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1972, attended the New School for Social Research (BA, History of the Sciences; BFA, painting) and received a MFA from Columbia University. He lives and works in Brooklyn. |
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Head (Norma Panduro), 2007; acrylic and graphite on paper; 24 x 18”; not for sale | |
Untitled (Ayahuasca Vision), 2008; acrylic paint, watercolor, and ink on paper; 18 x 29.25”; $ 3,800 | |
Untitled (Ayahuasca Vision), 2008; acrylic paint, watercolor, and ink on paper; 18 x 29.25”; $ 3,800 | |
Icaro, 2008; acrylic, watercolor, and graphite on paper; 24 x 39”; $ 5,000 | |
Flowering, 2008; acrylic, watercolor, and graphite on paper; 24.25 x 39.25”; $5,000 | |
Emergent Entopic Forms, 2008; acrylic, watercolor, and graphite on paper; 23.25 x 57.75”; $ 7,500 |
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Through the Veil (Hyperbolic Landscape), 2003–08; acrylic, watercolor, and graphite on paper; 40 x 60”; $ 9,800 | |
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, 2008; acrylic, watercolor, and graphite on paper; 43.5 x 74” $ 11,500 | |
Telepathy, 2007; acrylic paint and graphite on paper; suite of 5, 24 x 18” each; $ 14,000 | |
Telepathy, 2007 (detail) (Karsten/Norma) | |
Plant Consciousness, 2007; acrylic, watercolor, and graphite on paper; 26 x 76”; $ 7,500 | |
Dice Drawings Set One, 2007–08 graphite on index cards mounted on foam board; 32 cards; 17.5 x 47.5” overall; $ 4,500 |
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Dice Drawings Set One, 2007–08 (detail) | |
Dice Drawings Set One, 2007–08 (detail) | |
Dice Drawings Set One, 2007–08 (detail) | |
Dice Drawings Set One, 2007–08 (detail) | |
Dice Drawings Set One, 2007–08 (detail) | |
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