Greengrassi is pleased to announce an exhibition of work by Los Angeles based artist, Jennifer Pastor, including two new sculptures. This will be her second exhibition at the gallery.

At a time when technology seems to be all about getting more people to see more images more quickly and clearly than ever before, Jennifer Pastor’s “Endless Arena” comes across as a wonderfully nutty throwback to a bygone era.

The spindly sculpture, in a small back gallery at Regen Projects, resembles nothing so much as the armature for some kind of homegrown experiment or the framework for an ad-hoc stage set. It’s both and more. But you won’t know that if you don’t look closely. And slowly. Pastor has no interest in quick reads, trendy gimmicks or convictions that take shape in the blink of an eye. To see what she’s up to you must engage in a painstaking exercise of compare and contrast, studying the slight but significant differences between and among the four sculptural reliefs her steel structure supports.

Each depicts a pair of wrestlers, their limbs entangled as they grapple for dominance. It’s impossible to determine chronological sequence, or to even know if more than one moment is depicted. The all-or-nothing drama of victory and defeat is suspended by “Endless Arena,” as is our tendency to treat complex social issues as win-or-lose gambits that are resolved with decisive finality.

Doubt drifts into the picture Pastor’s sculpture paints in the mind’s eye. Evoking such unlikely precedents as Thomas Eakins and Eadweard Muybridge, her quietly exciting piece prefers the mysteriousness of the real thing to the hollow certainty of prepackaged reality.

Jennifer Pastor was born in 1966 and lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Solo exhibitions include the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2004); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1996). Her work was featured in major group exhibitions including “Acquisitions” at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2013); “The Artist's Museum” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles (2010); “Compass in Hand” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2009); “Monuments for the USA” at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (2005); the Italian Pavilion of the Venice Biennial; “Outlook: International Art Exhibition“ at the Benaki Museum, Athens (2003); “Drawing Now: Eight Propositions” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2002); the Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; “Sunshine & Noir” at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk (1997); “Universalis” the 23rd Sao Paulo Biennial (1996), among others. She is the recipient of the 1995 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award.