After The Function Of The Studio

Ian Jeffrey
After The Function Of The Studio
With an accompanying  text by
Trevor Fairbrother
October 10 - December 12, 2026
Saturdays 12 to 6pm 
And by appointment

Below is an excerpt from Trevor Fairbrother’s

accompanying text:

Viewing conditions: conditioning the viewer  

In 1979 an exhibition from the Pompidou began a 6-city U.S. tour, accompanied by an English edition of Hultén'sbook, titled Brancusi, Photographer. Ian Jeffrey made his recent collages in response to that publication. They arecomprised of two sheets, each a page from Brancusi, Photographer. The artist used an Xacto knife to cut windows in the sheet he intended to place on top. Thesewindows or negative spaces replicate the outlines of pedestals seen in the studio photos. Brancusi famouslycarved bases and pedestals for his sculptures, and evidently considered them works of art in their own right. In some works, Jeffrey excised the image of a pedestal from the top sheet; in other cases, the negative space is the outline of a pedestal from a different page. The tension between what is seen and what is obscured connotes flux and old school Cubist multiplicity. Jeffrey's title for the series – After Brancusi, Photographer – invites viewers to think about reality-versus-fiction and the fact that people and artworks behave differently in the studio and in the gallery.

Trevor Fairbrother, August 2026