when softly attacks

Time Out arrived in my mailbox this afternoon just as I was reading the online review of Introductions, artist Bryan Jackson's New York debut show on view at the Alexander Gray Gallery in Chelsea. The exhibiton features Jack's piece, Softly, in video, photographs, and models. It is, as the review says "...a metafiction that is both preposterously campy and strangely affecting."

All the sets were handmade to the scale of the actors—Bratz dolls with big, beautiful eyes and mouthwatering lips. The Los Angeles bedroom, shown above, is based on Jack's own. The minute details are wonderful: NASA Scudelia Electro posters, Eames chair, Ikea shelving. The recreation of his own stuff is more an intimate self-portrait than a film set.