Jeff Sheridan’s “As Above” at Stephanie Chefas Projects.
Currently on view at Stephanie Chefas Projects in Portland, Oregon is artist Jeff Sheridan’s solo exhibition, “As Above.”
Known for his monochromatic imagery, Sheridan’s work explores self-organizing symmetries in the natural world. Affected by elemental conditions, natural objects organize in a way that is neither crystalline nor inorganic. Water erosion sculpts mountains as life populates the resulting fertile pockets. Thematic and fluid, these natural symmetries are accentuated through repetition, which in turn creates texture and form structures in negative space.
In “As Above,” the artist moves beyond logical assumptions to ask questions such as “What is the natural mind?“ and “What can be obtained from an ‘archaic’ mind?” Sheridan elucidates, “The modern technological supposition that we are the highest order of human to live on this planet is flanked by a great body of thought still influencing our lives, an ancient mind unable to separate subjective and objective, finding meaning in every great cosmic or earthly rumbling. This old mindset still holds a key to linking these realities. It’s also this archaic mind that got us in this present predicament. Which is a predicament in itself.”
“As Above” is on view until January 25th, 2019.

