James Jernigan's first curatorial venture for James Kelly Contemporary confirms that works on paper are witnessing re-legotimization as a principal site of evolving aesthetic formations. The eight artists in this survey are using the medium to explore concepts of myth and mystery. Responding to the twentieth century's self-mythologizing iconographic programs, several of the show's participants address the near sanctification of correct form and precise execution that accompany Modernist design's influences on artistic practice. [...]

Palermo-based artist Aleksandra Mir photographic collages manifest witty smash-ups of religious iconography and images of space travel-sitting both the scared and scientific within the mythology of ascension while commenting on Italy's transition from a religious culture to the equally speculative universe of modern physics. [...]