Hannah Levy

Bone-in

May 19 - August 11, 2019

Jeffrey Stark is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Hannah Levy. Comprising a single sculpture wedged into the gallery space, the exhibition will be on view from May 19th through August 11, 2019.

On view in the gallery is a monumental femur bone made of aluminum, epoxy, fiberglass, and sand. The femur’s shaft is made of aluminum, hand-ground and polished to mirrored reflectivity. Both ends of the bone faithfully reproduce the complicated organic forms that meet their joints at the hip and the knee, which Levy has coated with a gritty mixture of sand and epoxy. Fabricated to counter the modest scale of the exhibition space, the sculpture extends nearly thirteen feet, necessitating its angled placement between the gallery’s parallel walls. Seemingly jammed into place, the walls appear to support the entirety of the femur’s considerable weight.

Levy’s work engages consistently with forms and materials associated with the body. Incorporating media like silicone and polished steel, her sculptures make reference to a broad conception of corporeal form, exploring weight and texture, contour and shape. Pulling as well from the fields of prosthetics and medical research, she manipulates texturally incongruous materials to create tactile objects that suggest sensory experience. Levy’s forms emerge from a generative space between body and machine, contesting the difference between organic and artificial. Using synthetic materials to make a natural form, Levy’s femur offers an uncanny vision of human structure, rendered entirely out of scale with its environment.

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