Artists

Justin Marshall

Michael Tarbi

The Artery DC

Go Figure! at JET Artworks is an eclectic group show of figurative artists. The works I enjoyed most had a certain sense of fragmentation in common. Michael Tarbi's small, detailed drawings and Hunter Stamps' visceral sculptures use isolated pieces of anatomy in a psychological rather than clinical manner. The barely-there images in Lia Cook's exquisite black and white weavings recall pixellated photos, blurred newsprint, or faces emerging from smoke. In his DVD collage Screamtastic Justin Marshall assembles footage from slasher films of the 1970s and 80s to create a seamless, nearly wordless study of human gesture that shifts from creepy to downright funny and back in the blink of an eye. The characters in Amy Cutler's disjointed narratives wander through a world filled with jumbles of household goods, never as bewildered as they should be by their odd situation or the presence of the occasional crocodile.

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