Jeff Grant (1975) lives and works between Berlin and New York. He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1998 and at Goldsmiths College in London in 2000.His work has been shown throughout Europe and the US: Grimm/Rosenfeld, Thomas Erben Gallery, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Whitespace, and Team Gallery. Most recently his work has been acquired by Munich Re Insurance collection in Germany.

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My work is untrustworthy but honest. It is a study in the co-existence of determined facts and shifting, ambiguous definitions. Solidity is literally and figuratively undermined.

I deal with ambiguities and over-determinations inherent in or applied to familiar images and forms. The specificity of an object or image’s qualities are manipulated, reaffirmed, or disregarded. Instability, elusiveness, and fragility exist concurrent to anything solid, specific, or precisely defined. They are inextricably intertwined.

Using a wide variety of media (sculpture, drawing, video, installations using found and hand made objects, etc.), I like to take advantage of restrictions presented in found objects and images. As well, I like to impose my own restrictions and alterations on those. It is in the limitations of the materials that I find the precise spot for un-defining a thing.

My work is characterized by exaggerated assertions and subtle contradictions. Haunted and understated it stands as a series of precisely ambiguous and shifting gestures.

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arts critic ATL, by Catherine Fox. September 21, 2009