“There is a history of diagnosing the landscape around us as irredeemably altered by the automobile: Peter Blake’s “God’s own Junkyard”, Jane Holtz Kay’s “Asphalt Nation” and the sculptural work of John Chamberlain are but a few of the most prominent. It is with this backdrop that Jeff Mann’s exhibition Carscape operates.”

There is a history of diagnosing the landscape around us as irredeemably altered by the automobile: Peter Blake’s “God’s own Junkyard”, Jane Holtz Kay’s “Asphalt Nation” and the sculptural work of John Chamberlain are but a few of the most prominent. It is with this backdrop that Jeff Mann’s exhibition Carscape operates. The artist has taken car parts as tools for creating his paintings. New patterns are generated–treads from tires become abstract forms. By doing so, the aesthetics and intricacies of mechanical components are given a new, more “benign” use: one that is, as the artist says, “more dance than dirge.”