‘Consentient Doubt’
New work by Jack Sears
August 19 to September 19 2010
Jack Sears’ work deals with the in-between––the perceptible and
imperceptible place of coherence. Consentient Doubt can be understood
in terms of Keats’ concept of Negative Capability, which he defines as
“being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable
reaching after fact and reason”.
Sears’ collages seek the unified, inclusive line of one or two images,
creating complete representations of the in-between. His drawings, in
turn, seek to cohere bifurcations. The system for their construction
begins with the axis point, the apex of the curve, the event point of
division, the place that is neither here nor there but in-between.
Thus, doubt.
62 drawings and collages are on view, as well as a
site-specific sculptural element.
