The Constant Now

The Constant Now

Elijah Gene McElory Jensen-Lindsey has been described as, “an artist that makes painstaking efforts to avoid ease.”  A native of Nampa, ID, a carpenter by trade, Jensen-Lindsey has developed a complex, secret, and inherently sincere, practice of creating objects, installations, and music-based projects; that have hidden meanings and blur the distinctions between art and craft.  His work is inundated with and often haunted by complex, abstract, and deeply personal narratives. These narratives create a charming pastiche with many individual threads forming a patchwork quilt that is both surreal and nostalgic. Jensen-Lindsey invites the viewer to pull upon and follow each of these threads to their ruinous end; as the viewer’s experience unfolds these threads quickly unravel and reveal complex emotional content with deeper narratives that touch upon his identity as a creative artist haunted by loss and confronting a changed identity by way of physical disrepair, as well as his working class and strictly religious upbringing.  His work utilizes the inherent tension between loss and hope, acceptance and succession, fashioning new sophisticated twists on sources as diverse as modernist assemblage, comic illustration, poetry, and funerary installation.

Elijah Gene McElroy Jensen-Lindsey is also the founder of The Dying Letter Office, which recently had a retrospective exhibition at Bricoshoppe and Black Hunger Gallery in Boise, ID.

His music based project With Child will be playing a free show in Reno, NV on Thursday December 12, 2013 at St. James Infirmary at 8pm proceeding the exhibit opening of The Constant Now at The Holland Project on December 20th, 2013.

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