Jared Patton Plock: The Third MONA Prize

Opening Reception: Sunday June 29, 3-7pm

showing through August 3, 2014

Museum of Photography and New Media | MONA

@ 2501 Rochester Court, Troy, MI 48083

First Floor

Through the deconstruction and subsequent reassembling of these common objects I draw on a unique yet shared experience with the objects as well as the materials and the empathic quotient tied to them. There is a beauty and inherent trust that we place in the mundane and the common. Through my practice this trust is undone and redefined, and the mundane is replaced with the bizarre and absurd. By visually staking-out the familiar, alien, comfortable and awkward, I create a framework for the audience to experience the shift from actuality to potentiality. The audience engages and inhabits the work from this cusp. Within this figurative space the work calls on the viewer to employ memory and language to define its relationship to the body as well as the external world. Functioning in the language of semiotics the original object is not only intervened upon, the final work is an intervention in and of itself." - Jared Patton Plock

The Museum of Photography and New Media is located at: 2501 Rochester Court, Troy, MI 48083