Admissions

Parent Company is pleased to present Admissions, a solo exhibition of recent work by Jacob Jackmauh. Incorporating a range of references, from single-use disposable merchandise to public-facing design and architecture, Jackmauh examines the social and material symptoms of consumer-based manufacturing. His work appears in many forms, including found objects and replicated municipal fixtures. By sifting through novelty goods and seemingly prosaic materials, Jackmauh teases out latent visual patterns, embedded narratives, and implicit human aspirations. In Admissions, the darkened exhibition space becomes a testing ground for Jackmauh’s sculptural vignettes. Including works such as a replica of an LED informational graphic found on R145 MTA trains, a discarded factory mold fragment for a giant fiberglass elephant, and an altered inflatable lawn decoration, Jackmauh presents artifacts salvaged from public life at various supply-chain stages and in shifting states of real and simulated metamorphosis.