HOST

Drawings by Jessica Balsam

Monday January 15 through Friday February 9, 2007
Opening Reception: Thursday January 18 from 7-9 pm

Ice Box Contemporary Art is pleased to present Host, an exhibition by Jessica Balsam.

What makes a good host? Building overhangs make excellent hosts for pigeons, which act as hosts for mosquitoes, which in turn are hosts to the West Nile Virus. Host exposes real, imagined, and potential hosts from the artist's own environment, along with the bacteria and viruses that might make themselves at home there. Does her attic really play host to rats the size of small cats, as her neighbor claims? What viruses are making themselves cozy on those rats?

Jessica's work examines the terrain where bacteria, viruses, and humans interact. She is a Tacoma-based artist who has exhibited most recently at Soil Gallery in Seattle, Kirkland Arts Center, and Bh6 Gallery in Portland.

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