Gravity Was an Entity

Management is pleased to present Gravity Was an Entity, a duo exhibition of new work by New York-based artists Amorelle Jacox and Jessi Li. Jacox’s painting practice expands from the self to the cosmic, observing the traces of her being in the all-permeating celestial void that is as present in the beyond as it is at the edges of consciousness. Li’s sculpture practice of casting glass and modeling clay is rooted in the investigation of the natural order in its relationship to humans, equalizing the mythical and the mundane in the service of philosophical inquiry into the cycle of life and matter in their transmutational infinitude. A short story by Meleah Moore accompanies the exhibition. Amorelle Jacox (b. 1994 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is a New York-based artist whose work is born of metaphysical inquiry, conjectures of body, object, and deep space being inseparable. Jacox holds an MFA from Hunter College (2022). Recent solo exhibitions include An Infinite Sunder at Lauren Powell Projects, Los Angeles, CA (2023), and Two projections of time, Baseltor Kiosk, Solothurn, Switzerland (2022). She recently completed a residency with Wolf Hill Arts, Chappaqua, NY (2023). Jacox was a recipient of the Marjorie Strider Foundation Grant (2022). Her works and writing have been published in Art Maze (2023) and Yale School of Divinity’s Letters journal (2019). Jessi Li (b. 1987 in Poughkeepsie, NY) is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work investigates the relationship between human intervention and the natural world. They hold an MFA in sculpture, Hunter College, 2019; a BA in ceramics, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, 2009; a post-baccalaureate in glass at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Art, 2014. Li is a 2024 NYSCA Support for Artist Grant recipient and will complete a large-scale outdoor work this summer in collaboration with Becky Sellinger at Stone Quarry Art Park, Cazenovia, New York. Recent exhibitions include: Form and Formless: Constellations of Knowledge, Urban Glass curated by Alpesh Kantilal Patel Brooklyn, New York, 2023; Nowhere Fast, Olympia, New York, New York, 2023; Heavy Show, Spring/Break, New York, New York, 2022; 100 Sculptures, Anonymous Gallery, New York, New York, 2021. Li was an artist in residence at Chautauqua School of Art, 2020 and teaches sculpture, ceramics, and glass casting at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Greenwich House Pottery, and independently.