Jesse Mockrin: Echo, Art Gallery of Ontario

Time varies
Art Gallery of Ontario
317 Dundas Street West
Toronto, Ontario
M5T 1G4

Inspired by Baroque paintings, sculptures, and drawings at the AGO, in her first solo museum exhibition, American artist Jesse Mockrin radically re-envisions familiar historical subjects—Bathsheba, Solomon, and Daphne among them—through her own contemporary, feminist lens. Urgent and subversive, Mockrin’s closely cropped compositions reveal the unsettling and uncanny dramas buried in the art historical canon.  Curated by Adam Harris Levine, the AGO’s Associate Curator of European Art, this exhibition will feature more than 12 new large-scale paintings and works on paper, installed alongside paintings, drawings, and sculptures from the AGO’s European Collection.  

Jesse Mockrin (b. Silver Spring, MD, 1981) received her M.F.A. from the University of California, San Diego in 2011, and her B.A. from Barnard College, New York in 2003. She has had solo exhibitions at James Cohan (New York), Night Gallery (Los Angeles), Nathalie Karg Gallery (New York), Galerie Perrotin (Seoul), and the Centre for International Contemporary Art (Vancouver). Her work is in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art among others. Mockrin's work has been covered extensively, appearing in publications including The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Vogue, Artforum, T Magazine, Art in America, and Modern Painters, among others.