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Jesse Draxler creates large-scale collage work that draws you in while simultaneously causing shock and a feeling of disturbance. Digital inversions and hand painted alterations obscure faces rendered only in black-and-white; faceless figures embody universal notions of death and terror, yet to jesse Draxler, they also act as self-portraits. He draws heavily from the notion that everything a human does is influenced by the inevitable fact that one day everyone dies. Abstracting and subtracting the human form, Draxler simultaneously masks and uncovers  both form and emotion, body and feeling. His practice resonates with familiar deep-set feelings, and like many working artists, Draxler pulls from his own mental state.

Marco Mazzoni