Daneyal Mahmood Gallery is please to present Jodie Cary's first solo exhibition in NY premiering her most recent work. This exhibition explores the frequent disparity between private and public grief and the acts we undertake in the rituals of mourning. It continues the themes of ceremony artifice and mortality that thread consistently throughout Carey's practice.

Reproduction furniture such as dining room tables, TV cabinets and the very English cake stand are heavily adorned with feathers and flowers made of blood soaked news and wax papers dripping with candle wax to create still-lives with strong ritualistic and ecclesial overtones. The out-of-fashion furniture speaks of a past generation, of Sunday best and "keeping up appearances". It speaks both of domestic routine and the rituals of hospitality. The carefully crafted abundant funereal blooms present a magnificent facade, their own fragility and elegance evoking a desolate transitory beauty that is quietly sinister. The silence of the soft feathers adorning both the walls and the furniture appear luxurious at first glance, but on closer inspection still bear the stains of the slaughtered birds.

Both sculptures and wall hangings represent the commemorations of death through the traditions we uphold and the public gestures we make. In a sense, Carey's works are private monuments, unusually filled with sincere reverence and emotion that can often be lacking in the public monuments set in stone. They are filled with the piercing dramas of everyday life, of everyday death, of everyday "Englishness" and stand as still lives from past lives tainted by the inevitability of tragedy, time and decay.

Jodie Carey lives and works in London, UK. She holds a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmith College and an MFA in sculpture from the Royal College of Art. Her work has appeared in numerous European solo and group exhibitions including Towner Art Gallery, Alexia Goethe Gallery, Galerie Gabriel Rolt and Hauser and Wirth. Carey?s work has been internationally collected, among others, by Charles Saatchi, David Roberts, Kay Saatchi and Hauser & Wirth.