Julia Jacquette: I Dreamt

Bakery counter cakes, gleaming wedding dresses, and meticulously painted hors d'oeuvre platters shine from Jacquette's glossy enamel-on-wood pop paintings and her most recent large scale gridded canvasses. Desire and memory are found within her focused look at middle class Americana and its cultural reproduction through advertising. Her coupling of suggestive texts with "innocent" cream-puff pastries and her idealized visions of the trappings of traditional weddings unmask the sometimes uncomfortable cultural attitudes towards gender and longing.