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In Jackson Joyce’s exhibition Three Room House, the paintings are created from the perspective of three imaginary artists who are members of the fictitious Ellerbe Artist Colony - a secret group of sentimentalists who live a tender, pastoral existence in the woods of rural Louisiana.

The first artist sees their world through cut-out shapes of figures and objects. The second artist is the staunch observationalist who magnifies the most minute details, from a blade of grass shading a maple moth’s wings to the delicate gesture of hands falling into place over piano keys. The third artist …