ARTIST OF THE WEEK: JEFF HUNTINGTON

Porter Contemporary, NY, is pleased to announce Plaques & Tangles, the new paintings by Jeff Huntington, who explores the mysteries of perception and memory as well as the flexibility and fragility of the human mind. The title of the exhibition refers to the amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles that are believed to contribute to the development of Alzheimer’s disease, a disease with which Huntington is quite familiar. While watching his father struggle with Alzheimer’s, the artist began to experiment with perspective. Using his father, nieces and nephews as subjects, Huntington developed a new portrait style that illustrates not only fragmented and confused thinking processes, but also his own shifting — and often challenging — feelings about his father’s illness."