Jesse Stecklow
Art Basel Miami Beach
Booth P02
December 4, 2024 to December 8, 2024
Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach, FL, United States
Exhibition Text
At Art Basel Miami Beach 2024, Sweetwater presents a solo booth of new works by Jesse Stecklow. Stecklow’s practice is rooted in data collection. Each sculpture is part of a network, a link of a recursive chain in which each work references a past work or foretells a future work. Elements brought together from diverse sources repeat, shift forms, and reveal unexpected connections; themes from earlier projects are reinvented and recast in different constellations with each following presentation. Agriculture plays an important role in works produced for the fair. Stecklow continues his use of corn-related products (including paraphernalia of seed-producer DeKalb and its former parent company Monsanto) and newly incorporates toluene (a byproduct of crude oil), a compound detected in an air sample of Sweetwater during his 2023 solo exhibition.
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Artist Biography
Jesse Stecklow's practice is rooted in data collection; each of his sculptures is a link in a recursive chain in which each work references a past work or foretells a future work. Stecklow extracts data from exhibition sites, using it as inspiration for materials and forms in new works. Elements brought together from diverse sources repeat, shift forms, and reveal unexpected connections; themes from earlier projects are reinvented and recast in different constellations with each following presentation.
Stecklow (*1993, United States) lives and works in Los Angeles. He has presented two solo exhibitions at Sweetwater, most recently in 2023. His exhibition Terminal took place at the Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (mumok), Vienna in 2022, and was accompanied by a catalogue. His work has also recently been included in exhibitions at the Capc Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, the Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin, and the Kunstverein Braunschweig. Stecklow received a degree in Media Arts from UCLA, Los Angeles, in 2014.