Jackie Rines

Cramped Style marks the debut of four new sculptures by Jackie Rines, each piece with a varied relationship to the shared space they inhabit. A psychedelic-patterned zebra pelt slides down the wall to meet the floor, while a personified chair-rail is marked by evidence of careless incidents. A bulky Cuckoo clock presses into the wall— its weight dispersing across a broad surface in order to support itself. At the center of it all, a pair of eight-foot-tall legs wear melting designer garb as they meet an imagined ceiling.

Jackie Rines moved to Los Angeles from Detroit, Michigan, and earned her MFA at UCLA in 2017. Her work in clay is often extremely large in scale, weaving together a myriad of themes, such as interiors, power, and funk. Rines was awarded a Jerome Fellowship at The Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, and was an artist-in-residence at Henry Street Settlement in New York. She is a member of Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles, and her work has been shown in Berlin, Vienna, as well as extensively across the United States.