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Art Palace
3913 Main Street, Houston TX 77002
About the Exhibition
The search for truth in our universe is futile, but the act of seeking is of the utmost importance. A continuation of the premises presented in The Book of Lenny, Doubled Vision is set in a post-catastrophe landscape. We follow Lenny and Johan Pilgrim, two everyman-survivors on a quest to find meaning. Using various approaches to image-making, including painting, drawing, video and sculpture, Marshall reflects on ideas of survival, landscape and vision quests to create his own folk-mythology and D-I-Y hero’s journey. Marshall uses exploration as a metaphor for the practice of both art-making and the art of living: not just a means to an end, but valid, in and of itself. Marshall urges us to embark on this search as both rationalists and dreamers, for it is through journeys of body and mind that reality comes to know itself.
About the Artist
Jonathan Marshall received his BFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 2003, and is currently pursuing his MFA at Virginia Commonwealth University. Since then, his work has been in exhibited in a number of group and solo shows at spaces including Man&Eve (London), Reynolds Gallery (Richmond, VA), Dunn & Brown (Dallas), sixspace (Los Angeles) and Arthouse (Austin). Marshall’s work can also be found in the permanent collection of the Blanton Museum of Art and the Austin Museum of Art. He was awarded “Best Solo Show 2007” by the Austin’s Critic’s Table for his first Art Palace solo, The Book of Lenny.
