JESSE FLEMING

Jesse Fleming has been producing consistently engaging moving images for the last decade. Each work manages to create a transcendent experience, luring the viewer in through a sophisticated craft, holding them past their expectancy, and bringing them to a new place of moment and presence.

In Methods of Invisibility, Fleming disguised himself as a police officer while driving an unmarked police car across the United States, for Apart/Together, he designed a micro camera vest for a pigeon - releasing it into a massive and tightly woven flock of 1,500 birds. In his immersive project Desert, he gathered surreal and sublime landscape images only to juxtapose them with aerial footage of crop circle like formations carved by off road vehicles. In the hypnotic work IT, he created animations of light, color, and sound that are at once euphoric and ominous, for the project 1 to 5 to 1, 3,500 viewers were entranced by a simple looped number sequence at the end of a 600 foot mausoleum, and for the unbelievable document of The Snail and the Razor, Fleming trained a garden snail to crawl up and over an upright razor blade.

Fleming has exhibited nationally and internationally in Los Angeles, New York, London, Barcelona, shot projects for the Museum of Modern Art, NY, The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and recently exhibited at The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Fleming has held residence at The Old School for Social Sculpture, NY. The Outpost Artist Residency, NY. Mamori Art Lab, Brazil, The Riverside Art Museum, and Joshua Tree National Park. In 2001, Jesse received his BFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute.

The Snail and The Razor- January 7 - January 14, 2012

Desert - March 12 - April 23, 2011

Methods of Invisibility: Shades of Gray (2001-2009) - June 27 - July 25, 2009

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Jesse's video Apart/Together can be seen on Metro buses around Los Angeles as part of Out the Window
Video can be seen here