Jared Ginsburg | All the things you are
Jared Ginsburg
In Jared Ginsburg’s All the things you are, presented with support from blank projects, here objects enter on their own terms. Cardboard, wood, resin, rubber, and steel key boxes sit beside and inside paintings, unsettling any easy hierarchy of support and subject. A security key cabinet may hinge into a picture, or a picture may stretch to accommodate hardware; value implied by the canvas meets the stubborn life of materials. In this fold between the elevated and the everyday, Ginsburg tests what kinds of attention art can ask for and receive, and its ability to sharpen or complicate our habits of looking.
Jared Ginsburg
All the things you are, 2025
Oil on canvas
Work: 137.1 x 147.2 x 4.5 cm (54 x 58 x 1.8 in.)
Frame: 138.2 x 148.2 x 5 cm (54.4 x 58.3 x 2 in.)
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Jared Ginsburg
Two strings, 2025
Oil on canvas
Work: 137.1 x 147.2 x 4.5 cm (54 x 58 x 1.8 in.)
Frame: 138.1 x 148.2 x 5 cm (54.4 x 58.3 x 2 in.)
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Jared Ginsburg
A fine picture of a horse, 2025
Oil on canvas
Work: 137.1 x 147.2 x 4.5 cm (54 x 58 x 1.8 in.)
Frame: 138.1 x 148.2 x 5 cm (54.4 x 58.3 x 2 in.)
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Jared Ginsburg
Untitled (Body in ground), 2025
Oil on canvas
Work: 103.5 x 91 x 4.5 cm (40.7 x 35.8 x 1.8 in.)
Frame: 104.6 x 92.2 x 5 cm (41.2 x 36.3 x 2 in.)
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Jared Ginsburg
Untitled (Recline), 2025
Oil on canvas
Work: 52 x 75 x 4.5 cm (20.5 x 29.5 x 1.8 in.)
Frame: 53.1 x 76.1 x 5 cm (20.9 x 30 x 2 in.)
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Jared Ginsburg
Key case (Lovers II), 2025
Oil on canvas, steel key case
Work (open): 50.5 x 53.5 x 2.5 cm (19.9 x 21.1 x 1 in.)
Work (closed): 25.5 x 53.5 x 5 cm (10 x 21.1 x 2 in.)
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Jared Ginsburg
Key case (Interior), 2025
Oil on canvas, steel key case
Work (open): 50.5 x 53.5 x 2.5 cm (19.9 x 21.1 x 1 in.)
Work (closed): 25.5 x 53.5 x 5 cm (10 x 21.1 x 2 in.)
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Jared Ginsburg
Key case (Lovers I), 2025
Oil on canvas, steel key case
Work (open): 50.5 x 53.5 x 2.5 cm (19.9 x 21.1 x 1 in.)
Work (closed): 25.5 x 53.5 x 5 cm (10 x 21.1 x 2 in.)
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Jared Ginsburg
Untitled (View from the N7), 2025
Oil on canvas
Work: 48.5 x 50.5 x 2 cm (19.1 x 19.9 x 0.8 in.)
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Jared Ginsburg
Key case (Heads), 2025
Oil on canvas, steel key case
Work (open): 50.5 x 53.5 x 2.5 cm (19.9 x 21.1 x 1 in.)
Work (closed): 25.5 x 53.5 x 5 cm (10 x 21.1 x 2 in.)
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Jared Ginsburg
Key case (Suspended line), 2025
Rubber, string, steel key case
Work: 53.5 x 25.5 x 25.5 cm (21.1 x 10 x 10 in.)
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Jared Ginsburg
Rubber index #3, 2025
Steel key cases, plaster, string, jewellers wire, rubber and keys
Work: 152.5 x 215.5 x 2.5 cm (60 x 84.8 x 1 in.)
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Jared Ginsburg
Figure in pink and blue, 2025
Oil on wood, resin
Work: 27 x 37 x 2 cm (10.6 x 14.6 x .8 in.)
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Jared Ginsburg
One note, 2025
Wax chalk on paper on cardboard, resin
Work: 34.5 x 31 x 3 cm (13.6 x 12.2 x 1.2 in.)
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jared Ginsburg uses art-making to explore alternative modes of knowledge production and transfer. He recognises art as a tool, a means to test and probe the world, hoping to nurture new strategies for productive engagement. Ginsburg employs a range of media types in his practice, including painting, sculpture, drawing, video and performance. Seeking “indeterminacy or chance operations” in his process, Ginsburg’s studio plays a significant role; at once a lab, an instrument and a character in conversation. To date, Ginsburg has had eleven solo exhibitions, both locally and internationally; most recently Paintings at Ben Hunter Gallery in London (2024) and objects move across a room at blank projects in Cape Town (2023). Group shows include Passage to Promise at Gregor Podnar in Vienna (2023), lO at blank projects, Cape Town (2023), quel jour sommes-nous? at Tokonoma in Kassel (2022), A Line Beyond at AVA Gallery, Cape Town (2021), The thing itself exists everywhere at blank projects, Cape Town (2021), 021 - 2021 at Stevenson, Amsterdam (2021), More for Less at A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town (2018), Artists and Architecture, Variable Dimensions at the Emily Harvey Foundation, New York (2016), and The Morning I Killed A Fly at Galleria Mazzoli, Modena, Italy (2015). In 2018, Ginsburg participated in the Idris Naim residency in Oaxaca, Mexico, culminating in the group exhibition Hacer Noche. Ginsburg’s work is represented in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago), A4 Arts Foundation (Cape Town), the Rennie Museum (Vancouver) and Astrup Fearnley (Oslo).