Jason Sherry & Scott Horsley
Luis de Jesus Seminal Projects
2040 India St.
San Diego, CA 92101
Through Nov. 24

New sculptural installations and photo-based collage works
by Jason Sherry, and new line drawings by Scott Horsley opened Nov. 2 at the
Luis de Jesus Seminal Projects gallery, one of San Diego’s most provocative and progressive
artistic spaces. Searching for the roots of human motivation, Sherry explores
alchemist traditions within Western culture. Sherry (like the alchemist) turns
a putrid topic to gold, using humor to explore the stages of human ignorance.
Scott Horsley, a UCSD MFA candidate, exhibits epic works that depict — in
Spartan black-and-white line drawings — a vast cast of characters. Seemingly
nonsensical portrayals, like that of an octopus collapsed beside an erected
scaffold or dozens of masked muggers battling each other, are endless readings
of contemporary iconographies, including
sex, violence and constructed masculinity.