welcome Organism’s inaugural exhibition, Jarrett Mitchell’s “The Dawn of The Birth Of The Battle of Right To Life vs. The Law Of Death”
When we ran into curator and director of Organism, Jeff Jahn, he said that Jarrett Mitchell’s show—Organism’s first proper show, discounting the Rist vid at their launch party— would address the abortion issue sans controversy. We said something along the lines of, “Yeah, right.”
Jarrett Mitchell’s “The Dawn of The Birth Of The Battle of Right To Life vs. The Law Of Death” opens December 6 at 107 NW 5th, 4th Floor with a reception for the artist from 6-9 PM. Then they’ll do it all over again on First Thursday, 6-9 as well.
TDOTBOTBORTL vs. TLOD is video, installation, paintings, and select PDXers stories about extraordinary interactions with deer. Both Jarrett and curator, Jahn acknowledge the prevalence of the cute deer in contemporary visual culture and visual art in particular but promise this is something very different. As Jahn says, “It is anything but cute and maybe this is the deer show to end all deer shows because Jarrett looks at how human and deer interactions reflect upon our humanity. It isn’t always pretty, though sometimes it is miraculous.”
Jarrett Mitchell has shown at Deitch Projects, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Jack Hanley, New Langton Arts in the USA and East International 2006 in Britain.
Equally exciting, this is just the tip of the Organism iceberg. Already hosting visual culture salon, Gertrude, Jahn reveals that Organism has about nine months of international arts programming in the works.
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