Jesse Houlding: Drawing Time

Bay Area-based artist Jesse Houlding creates machines, models and installations using magnetism, light, time and other natural phenomena. Blurring reality, scientific inquiry and the machinations of our imagination the artist looks at perception and the construction of meaning. His references are broad, including physics, psychology, mechanics, conceptual and process-based art, the occult and Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum.

 This solo exhibition will feature Houlding's Magnet Drawings, kinetic sculptures in which a series of magnets draw on sheets of paper with iron filings; light-based installations evolving from his Telluric Currents series; and truck drawings registering paths driven from here to there around the Bay Area. Taken together Houlding explores  the line between sculpture and other media, creating sculptural machines that make drawings, marks that are registers of time, and light boxes that make visible lines of force and alter our perception of space. They are experiments in perception and time, abstracting lived experience and making visible the invisible. "I am interested in the ways we negotiate the mixture of anxiety and wonder we feel as we attempt to make sense of the world around us."