The show's main attraction was a full-wall installation (detail pictured). Overall, Jeff's work retains its graced balance of splash and measure, darkness and comedy. Brushy unfinished elements lean up against precisely articulated lines. Daggers pierce clouds or houses, but there is no obvious effect, and the daggers look less like weapons and more like homages to scrawls in high school text books.
The thing that held back my ever-love for the show was the occasional sense of incompletion in a piece. Sometimes after an initial dag! or nice! I'd notice an element that just looked unfinished or the abandoned for lack of interest. Granted there are striking and satisfying elements that would appear to have resulted from boredom, but the unfinished elements sometimes left me feeling like I didn't need to pay that much attention to the piece after all.
Over all, it was good to be in a room full of Jeff's work.
And a follow-up of fish and chips on a rainy day was nice too.
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