Work > INTENTS & PURPOSES [2017]

INTENTS & PURPOSES was a solo exhibition of sculpture, installation and video at Andrew Rafacz Gallery in Chicago in early 2017. Referencing the design and logic of a department store setting, the sculptural and time-based works in INTENTS & PURPOSES aim to playfully converse between tropes of market culture and political interventions, each with their own method of display. As Risa Puleo writes in the exhibition text: “How can the artist maintain radicality and enact anti-capitalist principles within the double bind of the commercial art world? Guided by this question, the objects, pictures, environments, and installations Zearfoss has created for INTENTS & PURPOSES insist on a place for political content within a market context.”

Andrew Rafacz Gallery. Chicago, Illinois, January-March of 2020.