Bay Area-based artist Jesse Houlding creates machines, models, and installations using magnetism, light, time and other natural phenomena.

Blurring reality, scientific inquiry, and the machinations of our imagination, Houlding looks at perception and the construction of meaning. His references include physics, psychology, mechanics, conceptual and process-based art, the occult, and Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum."

This solo exhibition will feature Houlding's Magnet Drawings: kinetic sculptures in which magnets "draw" on sheets of paper by pulling iron filings across the paper; light-based installations evolving from his Telluric Currents series; and truck drawings registering paths driven from here to there around the Bay Area.

Houlding explores the line between sculpture and other media, creating sculptural machines that make drawings; marks that are registers of time; and light boxes that make visible lines of force and alter our perception of space. They are experiments in perception and time, abstracting lived experience and making the invisible visible.

"I am interested in the ways we negotiate the mixture of anxiety and wonder we feel as we attempt to make sense of the world around us," Houlding says.

Jesse Houlding lives in Oakland and maintains a studio in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco. Houlding is a graduate of SFSU, with an MFA in printmaking, and his work has been shown nationally--including a solo exhibition at Gallery Aferro in Newark, N.J.. titled "The One-Frame Cinema." Last fall he transformed The Lab in San Francisco with his solo installation of "The Telluric Currents." He received the 2009 American Psychoanalytic Association Academic Fellowship.

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