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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Jessica Jackson Hutchins\nEvent Url: http://www.art
 sboston.org/event/detail/441553761/Jessica_Jackson_Hutchins\nEvent Date Be
 gin: 2011-10-28\nEvent Date End: 2012-03-04\n\nOrganized by Senior Curator
  Jenelle Porter\n\n\nJessica Jackson Hutchins (b. 1971\, Chicago) transfor
 ms life into art\, creating sculptures and collages from everyday objects.
  With the addition of ceramic and papier-m&acirc\;ch&eacute\;\, her family
 's kitchen table and living room furniture\, along with her favorite piece
 s of clothing and books\, become works of art. A couch is no longer a couc
 h\, but a pedestal for sculpture. The rituals of quotidian use linger and 
 infuse Hutchins's work with charged sentiment. The tension between art and
  the stuff of life prompts us to think about her formal choices as well as
  her subject matter. Hutchins has said\, &ldquo\;Transformation\, evidence
  of work\, accidents\, the time contained in the humanity of the objects&m
 dash\;all that stuff is crucial to get at what I'm trying to get at\, whic
 h is ways of connecting to the world\, ways of knowing ourselves through t
 he things we encounter.&rdquo\;\n\n\nThis exhibition\, Hutchins's first so
 lo presentation in a museum\, showcases Symposion\, a large sculpture whos
 e title is the classical Greek word for &ldquo\;drinking party.&rdquo\; Th
 e attendees of a symposion shared not only wine\, but food\, sex\, and\, m
 ost importantly\, speeches. Symposion marries exuberant abstract form with
  a shabby sofa. Hand-built ceramic pots nestle among the crevices of a gar
 gantuan black papier-m&acirc\;ch&eacute\; form that haloes the peacock-blu
 e couch. The bulbous form&mdash\;both monstrous and sublime&mdash\;recalls
  imagery as varied as the massive reclining nudes of English sculptor Henr
 y Moore and ancient Greek pots decorated with drawings of revelers loungin
 g drunkenly on chaises. This exhibition also includes several drawings of 
 punctuation&mdash\;commas\, exclamation points\, and question marks&mdash\
 ;created from lumpy paper pulp\, paper coffee cups\, and spray paint and w
 atercolor. If the symposion was a place to deliver speeches\, then the dra
 wings offer another kind of arena. The fields of punctuation marks suggest
  a narrative\, but one without discernible plot.\n\nStart time: Tuesday an
 d Wednesday\, 10 am&ndash\;5 pm\nThursday and Friday\, 10 am&ndash\;9 pm\n
 Saturday and Sunday\, 10 am&ndash\;5 pm
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