Cassandra C. Jones

Eli Ridgway Gallery is pleased to present Photos Taken #drawings, Cassandra C. Jones' second solo exhibition at the gallery. The title refers to the artist's vast collection of photographs culled from the internet and her process of turning those images into a drawing device, like charcoal or ink. For this exhibition, Jones produced a body of work that literally and conceptually draws connections between how we organize and interpret imagery in the digital realm, where the archives of visual information are in a constant state of growth and evolution.

Merging "Remix Culture" with traditional mark making, Jones groups and connects stock photos of lightning bolts, end to end, to draw a series of circles—each executed with a different and distinct line quality, including bold, thin, feathered, overlapping, meandering and fluid linear scores. She uses this same approach to make increasingly complex, large-scale drawings of urban animals captured in mid-air, with dogs and rabbits appearing to leap through time, space and different rural, suburban and municipal locales. Jones creates other drawings by deconstructing single photographs of hot air balloons: by removing the backgrounds, the balloons are reduced to isolated shapes and blocks of color, then duplicated and meticulously arranged to illustrate woven patterns, silhouette profiles, botanic arrangements and aquatic creatures.