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JAIL Gallery presents:Main gallery: "Of Course and Never" Paintings by Wendy HeldmannProject space: "In Our Time: Covers for a Small Library after the Life for the Most Part", screen prints by R.B. Kitaj Curated by Sarah Lehrer-GraiwerShow Dates: February 14- March 14, 2009 Opening Reception: Saturday, February 14th 6-10PMLos Angeles (January 26, 2009)-- JAIL Gallery is pleased to present "Of Course and Never", a solo exhibition of paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Wendy Heldmann. Library aisles appear in Heldmann's paintings as they are never seen. Tomes slump in their shelves, books lie in unintelligible piles on the floor, and periodicals are strewn across aisles, defying the organizing principles that make their contents accessible. The entropic state of these compositions is amplified through a use of paint that further enacts such a state. Whether alluding to the obsolescence of tactile information systems such as libraries, allegorizing the innavigable results of an obtuse google search, or simply documenting the varying degrees of disarray left after a thorough ransacking, "Of Course and Never" oscillates between affirmation and negation of each perspective.Heldmann's interest in things falling down ranges from having lived on and off-the-grid in earthquake country for 13 years, to having studied civil engineering at Cornell University and the Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Germany. Heldmann's day job of putting on exhibitions and lectures at the architecture school SCI-Arc has further propelled her interest in depicting the abstraction and chaos of sites in a state of ruin. Wendy Heldmann received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a MA in Visual Arts with distinction from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work has been exhibited nationally and included in numerous publications such as New York Magazine, McSweeney's, and New American Paintings.