Amorelle Jacox:
Light Catcher, Time Keeper
12.26 Los Angeles is pleased to present Light Catcher, Time Keeper, a solo exhibition by New York-based artist Amorelle Jacox.
In Light Catcher, Time Keeper Jacox considers the orientation of space, time, and light through her paintings. By studying the Earth’s relation to the Sun, the artist manifests visual representations of the equinoxes and solstices that occur four times annually.
Each large painting includes a small calendar at the top center of the canvas. The calendars contain multivalent meanings scientifically, physically, and metaphorically. Each calendar, composed of vertical lines creating rows, dissects the timetable into a grid with tiny, luminescent numbers echoing the days. Coincidentally, the grid, a form important to the artist, replicates the grid-like floor of the gallery space.
Metaphorically, the calendar as a suncatcher reflects the organization of time and the refraction of light into space. Time, on the canvas, is pronounced by the various triangular forms, including the hourglass and funnel, which also reference the body. Moments of clustered paint, which Jacox calls seeds, sprinkle themselves amongst the canvases like the thickness of atomic particles that alter the amount and duration of light dispersal on the equinox and solstice.
Light Catcher, Time Keeper expands upon the breadth of human language, offering a new source of communication that is non-verbal, material, and ephemeral. Find entry to this new language through the painted doorways and frames provided by Jacox and soak in the light of matter.
Amorelle Jacox (b. 1994, Tulsa, OK) lives and works in New York, NY. Jacox received her MFA in Studio Arts from Hunter College in New York, NY in 2022 and her BFA from Mount Vernon Nazarene in Mount Vernon, OH in 2016. Jacox has been featured in numerous solo and duo exhibitions at Management, New York, NY (2024); Anna Reid 72 Gallery, Princeton, NJ (2023); Lauren Powell Projects, Los Angeles, CA (2023); Baseltor Kiosk, Solothurn, Switzerland (2022), among others. She has been in group shows at Kasmin, New York, NY (2025); New Collectors Gallery, New York, NY (2022); Dinner Gallery, New York, NY (2022); Lauren Powell Projects, Los Angeles, CA (2021), among others. Jacox completed a residency with Wolf Hill Residency, Chappaqua, NY, in 2023, resulting in a solo exhibition staged in a garden.
In Light Catcher, Time Keeper Jacox considers the orientation of space, time, and light through her paintings. By studying the Earth’s relation to the Sun, the artist manifests visual representations of the equinoxes and solstices that occur four times annually.
Each large painting includes a small calendar at the top center of the canvas. The calendars contain multivalent meanings scientifically, physically, and metaphorically. Each calendar, composed of vertical lines creating rows, dissects the timetable into a grid with tiny, luminescent numbers echoing the days. Coincidentally, the grid, a form important to the artist, replicates the grid-like floor of the gallery space.
Metaphorically, the calendar as a suncatcher reflects the organization of time and the refraction of light into space. Time, on the canvas, is pronounced by the various triangular forms, including the hourglass and funnel, which also reference the body. Moments of clustered paint, which Jacox calls seeds, sprinkle themselves amongst the canvases like the thickness of atomic particles that alter the amount and duration of light dispersal on the equinox and solstice.
Light Catcher, Time Keeper expands upon the breadth of human language, offering a new source of communication that is non-verbal, material, and ephemeral. Find entry to this new language through the painted doorways and frames provided by Jacox and soak in the light of matter.
Amorelle Jacox (b. 1994, Tulsa, OK) lives and works in New York, NY. Jacox received her MFA in Studio Arts from Hunter College in New York, NY in 2022 and her BFA from Mount Vernon Nazarene in Mount Vernon, OH in 2016. Jacox has been featured in numerous solo and duo exhibitions at Management, New York, NY (2024); Anna Reid 72 Gallery, Princeton, NJ (2023); Lauren Powell Projects, Los Angeles, CA (2023); Baseltor Kiosk, Solothurn, Switzerland (2022), among others. She has been in group shows at Kasmin, New York, NY (2025); New Collectors Gallery, New York, NY (2022); Dinner Gallery, New York, NY (2022); Lauren Powell Projects, Los Angeles, CA (2021), among others. Jacox completed a residency with Wolf Hill Residency, Chappaqua, NY, in 2023, resulting in a solo exhibition staged in a garden.
