January 14 - February 20, 2016

no place like home

Marcus Jahmal

opening reception: saturday, january 14, 6-8pm

Marcus Jahmal’s paintings for No Place Like Home present colorful domestic settings. In each painting the viewer is directed to peer down wonky hallways and round sharp corners. Questions arise when looking at the paintings: What has invited me in? Who left the space this way? The rooms at first seem cosy, welcoming, but upon closer inspection a sense of unease grows. Unusually placed and balancing objects, or disproportionately sized figures appear. The scenes are cheerfully, flatly colored, and feel both full and empty. The rooms seem to long for human contact, or maybe are recovering from it. With one miniature sculpture, the figure from the paintings, Jahmal makes the paintings feel like a window into the mind of the sculpted figure; He has stepped out of his home and world, remembering some strange, solitary domestic life.

GALLERY HOURS:

Thursday - Sunday, 1 - 6pm, or by appointment. Please email hanne@fivemyles.org, or call 718-783-4438.

DIRECTIONS:

Take 2, 3, or 4 trains to Franklin Avenue. Walk two blocks against the traffic on Franklin. Walk ¾ block to 558 St. Johns Place. FiveMyles is within easy walking distance from the Brooklyn Museum.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

FiveMyles is in part supported by the New York State Council for the Arts, Public Funds from the New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Council Member Laurie Cumbo,  The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, the Perlemeter Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Joseph Robert Foundation, and the William Talbott Hillman Foundation.