BFA Visual & Critical Studies presents “Shells for Teeth,” a two-person exhibition of work by Lisa Saeboe (BFA 2015 Visual & Critical Studies) and Kate Jones (BFA 2016 Fine Arts). The exhibition will be on view from March 23 through April 20, at the SVA Flatiron Project Space, 133/141 West 21st Street. A reception will be held on Thursday, March 23, 6:00 – 8:00pm.

Saeboe and Jones began their joint practice in 2014 in Rome—while both were students in SVA’s inaugural semester in Italy—co-directing the experimental short film Satori. The piece is a sensuous take on sublime visual horror—themes that would prove prescient for their future creative endeavors.

While most of Saeboe and Jones’s collaborative work has been film- and photography-based, this is the first time the artists′ individual works are presented alongside one another. Saeboe’s meticulously composed erotic tableaux activate Jones’s daringly raw and explosive paintings and ceramics. Their contrasting approaches to art making present two disparate strategies for deconstructing the myth of the body and the perversion of the feminine.

Highlights from the exhibition include Saeboe and Jones’s film work as well as their first collaborative painting, marking the beginning of a new dialogue. The artists′ joint efforts on canvas serve to surface the alchemical undercurrent of their subject matter.

The exhibition is co-curated by Lisa Saeboe, Kate Jones and VCS faculty Peter Hristoff.

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