John creates durational, site-responsive interventions that involve a process of taking up residence within a place to fully engage with the location, its surroundings and every element within it. This residency will offer John an opportunity to further engage with the space and construct a new responsive experience using materials and inspirations found in and around the gallery building and the surrounding neighborhood. Among other things, they will respond to the physical elements of the gallery itself, such as its architectural features, natural light, sound and natural flow.

The resulting exhibit, numbers, patterns, movements and being, will open on Friday, September 9th with a reception from 7-9PM and will be on view through October 29th, 2022. A catalogue with essays from curator Charlie Levine, and writer and interdisciplinary artist Anastacia-Reneé will accompany the exhibition along with several new and past print editions by the artist.

The exhibition title, borrowed from a poem by Juan Felipe Herrera and found in the book, Notes on the Assemblage (City Lights Publishers, 2015), reflects time and personal movement in a way that John uses ritual and performance within the studio practice. Through actions of assembling and disassembling, shifting, accumulating and rearranging material, John emphasizes subtle dynamics and possibilities — to create and reinforce subtle tensions through activated elements. These aspects come together as a way of understanding ourselves — but also as a way to uncover the silent in-between spaces and forgotten moments.