Jacob Brooks
Jacob Patrick Brooks is an artist and writer living in New York.
In the two person show, Into the Fold, Aparna Sarkar and Davis Arney present two very different worlds, explored with nobody around to explain themselves. A call and response develops as you walk through the gallery. If Sarkar’s effusiveness heats up too much, Arney’s reserve is there to cool things down.
Justin Cloud’s show Crude is a striking instance of patience, guts, and visionary thinking. His willingness to boldly tinker is on full display, which signals a departure from his previous body of work, The Garden, that focused on more obviously organic forms. Those were mostly animals and flowers, in various shades of purple, silver, and black, with the occasional green thrown in. By contrast, Cloud’s new work stays close to the natural color of polished copper.
It’s hard not to be charmed by the paintings of Marlon Mullen, which emanate his belief in their material and subject. In an art world that loves to self-pathologize, his self-titled show at JTT stands as a bright light of belief and earnestness that’s hard to come by, especially lately, in a desert of cynicism.
There’s an atmosphere of unease that hangs over Sam McKinniss’s show Mischief at JTT. It’s a subtle, dreadful feeling that takes time to build.
