Carol Jazzar is pleased to present “In Characters” the latest solo exhibition by David Rohn, a Miami based artist working mainly with performance and lens based media.

A staple of the Miami arts community, Rohn, who has exhibited with almost every longstanding gallery and cultural institution in South Florida since settling here in the early 90’s, is known for his embodiment of various characters whose outlandish first impressions often serve as catalysts for epiphanies concerning our appreciation for cultural perceptions and the human heart.

With this body of work, which manifests here as a series of 6 performances and 8 photographs, Rohn explores his deep investment of Carl Jung’s archetypes - elemental forces that play a vital role in the creation of our fabricated realities. Expressing a multitude of polarized and strongly defined personas in an attempt to draw focus on the notion of a single universal consciousness, the artist prompts us by example to muster the courage to look within ourselves, at ourselves, and discover the impersonal and collective patterns by which we live and coexist.

Modern humankind is unanimously a wearer of masks. Beneath our many faces, however, the myths of our species lay bared by simple truths, the most potent of which is that we do not have separate, personal unconscious minds, but rather a shared pool of experience that informs (if not directs) our present actions from the shadows of our collective past like a prophetic echo. Characterized by deft imitation of select factions, Rohn’s work itself is party to this colorful amalgam, but unlike the broadly perfunctory nature of our behavior is pointed and decisive.

Saturday & Sunday 1-6pm and by appointment

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