Jessica Rankin /
Sky Sound /
Until Nov 9, 2024 /
White Cube Hong Kong
50 Connaught Road, Central
Hong Kong
+852 2592 2000
Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm
White Cube Hong Kong is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in Asia by New York-based artist Jessica Rankin (b.1971, Sydney, Australia).
Working with gestural painting and embroidery, Rankin’s practice fuses personal experiences and memories with broader references to politics, history, literature and poetry.
The artist’s latest exhibition takes its title from her major painting, Sky Sound (2024), which references the poem ‘Earth web’, written by the artist’s mother, the renowned Australian poet and playwright Jennifer Rankin. The new canvases and double-sided works on paper featured in the show combine paint with delicate embroidered passages drawn from a variety of poems, including those by her mother.
Combining geometric and organic forms, the compositions feature vibrant interactions between paint splashes, trails, gestures, and the sewn line – elements which coalesce to create topographical and constellatory patterns, evocative of vast landscapes and cosmic realms.
Jessica Rankin: Sky Sound is open until 9 November 2024. The artist’s work is currently featured in the group exhibition Julie Mehretu: Ensemble, on view at Palazzo Grassi in Venice, Italy, until 6 January 2025.
