On a fundamental level, art is a conversation among artists. (We’re invited to eavesdrop.) That includes speaking to artists from the past.
Jeffrey Vallance put several artist-forerunners on speed-dial in 2010, engaging a group of professional spiritualists and mediums to conduct a séance and make contact.
What his forebears had to say is on view and commemorated in eight large, black-and-white digital photographs and eight “spirit objects” — small shrines, amulets, keepsakes and the like — at CB1 Gallery. They exude the same wry and revealing Pop eccentricity that has been vital in Vallance’s droll work for more than 30 years.