This artist spotlights the racial inequities embedded in books by ripping them apart.
“Disruptor,” one of the snappiest, toughest works in Samuel Levi Jones’ snappy, tough show at the gallery Vielmetter Los Angeles, is keyed to a palette of exhaustion — faded browns, weak blues, whites yellowed by time and touch. The hues, sapped of their strength, belong to fabric book covers that Jones has divorced from their contents and stitched together in irregular patchwork grids. The metaphorical resonance is vivid.
The power struggle at the heart of every one of these works is real, a matter of social, historical consequence played out in color, texture and form. Planes jostle and overlap, push, pull and slide. Zigzag-stitched seams trail tangles of loose black threads. The washed-out reds of “Contrived Existences” evoke a brick wall. “Purpose” gleams with burnished primaries. The gray and green covers of “Wanted Not Needed” layer like improvised fish scales.
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