Universal Remote Exhibition by Jaime Cortez

Artist talk • Friday, January 7 • 6:30-7:00pm

Opening reception: Friday, January 7 • 7:00pm

Southern Exposure Gallery • 3030 20th Street (@ Alabama) San Francisco

(415) 863-2141 • w: www.soex.org

Jaime Cortez’s solo exhibition, Universal Remote, is a meditation on the absence of Michael Jackson. Through drawing, sculpture, photography and hybrid practices, Cortez calls down and calls out the spirit of the late, lamented MJ: one of the most epically brilliant, protean, and ultimately tragic icons of the past 40 years. Cortez’s contemplative depiction recasts Jackson’s particularly fluid self-representations of race, gender and sexuality as the moving tableau of a tender grotesque.