Jesse Ly at Roy G Biv Gallery

We love seeing what our midwest nice artists are up to! Congratulations to Jesse Ly for their solo exhibition, try, take time — take time, try at Roy G Biv Gallery in Columbus, OH ✨ Jesse was featured in a fervent and necessary arrangement.

try, take time – take time, try is a body of developing photographic works concerned with the dualities of care and labor. Through considerations of balancing tenderness alongside the rigidity and rage needed to cause change manifests via pictorial sequencing and referential iconography.

One’s field of view exists and transcends multitudes – blending degrees of needed softness and conviction. Encapsulating this disparateness delves into the functionality of these simultaneously differing but similar emotions and approaches. The works make time for setting affirmations, safe keeping, protection, and preparedness – assigning and attributing value through the pictorial representations, symbols, moments captured and held close. The work calls upon these methods to look into how one can harness the needed firmness to create direction with the leniency and care needed to hold space for compassion.

Jesse Ly is an Asian-American photographic and image-based artist. They hold a
BFA from the University of Cincinnati’s college of DAAP. They currently are the Graphic Design and Photography Media Facilities Coordinator at the University of Dayton.
They have exhibited work both nationally across the US in solo and group exhibitions and
internationally. Notably at spaces including The Contemporary Arts Center - Cincinnati,
PhMuseum - Bologna, Italy, FotoFilmic - Vancouver BC, the Carnegie Arts Center - Covington, KY and Zero Feedback - Tokyo, Japan.
They are a recipient of an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council, a RegionalArtist Renewal Grant via the National Endowment for the Arts, and was recently named a finalist for the Aperture Portfolio Prize for 2023.

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