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“The cool geometry of the chessboard with its dark and light squares is a given, fixed grid. Placed upon it, in juxtaposition, there is the cast-clay army of dark and light organic shapes: 24 “pawns” of equal importance.
Casting usually produces uniform pieces of a decided number of the edition, but because I used a rubber pacifier as my mold, each piece I pushed out of the pacifier emerged as a unique piece. It was fascinating to see how the only change in the process, the level of force, as material and mold remained the same, became a clear embodiment of my concept of repetition, summed up by Heraclites: "You can't step into the same river twice."
NO game, the title, intended to negate any literary association. The piece is not about chess and it is not about game; however, it does have affinity on an intellectual level with Marcel Duchamp.
Interpretation, as the shapes on the board do, varies by each and every spectator.”
Theodora Varney Jones
Theodora Varney Jones
No Game, 1998, I beam, chess board, unfired ceramics, 12 1/2” x 16” x 16”, $4,500
January 9 - February 7, 2010
THE SEDUCTION OF DUCHAMP
BAY AREA ARTISTS’ RESPONSE
CURATED BY:
Hanna Regev
& Steven Lopez
Theodora Varney Jones, American, born Budapest, Hungary.
Jones holds a BFA Academy of Fine Arts from Budapest. She has exhibited worldwide in museums and in private galleries. Her work is in many private and museum collections. Opening in November she will have one person exhibitions at the San Jose ICA and at Don Soker Contemporary Art in San Francisco.
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