Jordan Eagles: Blood/Spirit Through May 12 at the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art in Saint Louis, MO
RIVERFRONT TIMES
MISSOURI---These scarlet-hued stained glass-like works by New York-based artist Jordan Eagles possess a peculiarly visceral texture that's no accident: They're painted with bovine blood collected from slaughterhouses. Encasing this macabre material in layers of UV resin and Plexiglas, the pieces, which alternate in scale from the life-size to the intimate, embody an eerily deep luminescence. As the exhibit's title suggests, Eagles is exploring — quite literally and with almost scientific ingenuity — the overlap between the body and the spirit. Contextualized in the former chapel that is Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, this ambition seems ideally realized. As a whole, the work does much to re-imagine MOCRA as an exhibition environment — encouraging new ways of seeing the space, both conceptually and physically. [link]
Through May 12 at the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, 3700 West Pine Boulevard (on the Saint Louis University campus); 314-977-7170 or http://mocra.slu.edu. Hours: 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tue.-Sun.
MISSOURI---These scarlet-hued stained glass-like works by New York-based artist Jordan Eagles possess a peculiarly visceral texture that's no accident: They're painted with bovine blood collected from slaughterhouses. Encasing this macabre material in layers of UV resin and Plexiglas, the pieces, which alternate in scale from the life-size to the intimate, embody an eerily deep luminescence. As the exhibit's title suggests, Eagles is exploring — quite literally and with almost scientific ingenuity — the overlap between the body and the spirit. Contextualized in the former chapel that is Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, this ambition seems ideally realized. As a whole, the work does much to re-imagine MOCRA as an exhibition environment — encouraging new ways of seeing the space, both conceptually and physically. [link]
Through May 12 at the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, 3700 West Pine Boulevard (on the Saint Louis University campus); 314-977-7170 or http://mocra.slu.edu. Hours: 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tue.-Sun.
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