Sergej Jensen

Constructing his paintings from a wide range of textiles, the artist uses additive and subtractive physical methods like bleaching, fraying, or sewing to stand in for the traditional gestures of pure painting. Through these and other processes, Jensen creates modest and quiet abstractions that foreground the history and reuse of his chosen materials against a backdrop of various strands of modernist painting. The exhibition was organized by the Aspen Art Museum and curated by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson; its presentation at MoMA PS1 is organized by Peter Eleey, MoMA PS1 Curator.