Jessica Dickinson: Of-

Altman Siegel is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Jessica Dickinson. This is the New York based painter’s first exhibition with the gallery and in San Francisco. The exhibition consists of three paintings accompanied by large works on paper. Dickinson’s abstract paintings are layered over an extended period of time through repeated additive and subtractive procedures with oil on a plaster like surface. Events of marking, scraping, covering, cutting into and revealing are compressed as the paintings unfold actions of chance, change, and intention over time. The mixed media works on paper offer contrast through their differing material processes, incorporating the index of time, pressure, and marks formed beneath and between the peripheral activities of making the paintings. Dickinson’s decelerated works have the feeling of exposed surfaces moving through different states, where matter asserts itself as something impenetrable while at the same time vulnerable.