Jones, Rachel; Doyle, Oona; Wei, Wang — Rachel Jones: A Shorn Root

London, Thaddaeus Ropac, 2023. Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover. Bound in black cloth with illustration pasted center. 124 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 33 cm. English/Chinese text. This new group of paintings, made specifically for the exhibition, marks a significant development in Jones's ongoing interest in the mouth as a central motif in her work. In these paintings, the focus shifts from the rows of teeth that have previously run across Jones's canvases to the lone structure of a single tooth. Activated by the cacophonies of color laid down beneath in oil stick and pastel, the outlined shape of the tooth is repeated across the paintings as a symbolic shorthand for interior experience, particularly the interiority of Black lived experience, in a mode that is untethered from direct bodily representation. SUBJECT(S). VG. Light touches of shelfwear.