08/03/2026
🤯14 DAYS😏
From Jeff Repko’s exhibition at the Alexander Brest Gallery!
This exhibition opens August 17th with an Opening Reception August 27, 5-7PM. We hope to see you there 🤩
Jeff Repko Jeff Repko
These abstract mechanisms are surrogates for figures and for the ways body and identity are
inseparable, even when they feel at odds. Made of specialized parts capable of broad and specific
tasks, they carry the implication of function. But by obscuring utility, that function retreats.
Without assignment, the purpose becomes simply to exist.
The work occupies the space between labor and play as they both align with a restless motion.
Through digital and analog processes, precisely fabricated components combine with the slower
rhythmic labors of woodwork, sewing, and crocheting.
Vibrant color and surface q***r these
mechanical references, stretching across genders and identities, becoming bodily. The paintings
flatten this vocabulary into blueprints, catching machines mid action, freed from gravity and wear.
These mechanisms require care and are destined to deteriorate. Like bodies, they rely on others
to broaden their possibilities.
