BasketShop is pleased to present Paintings for a Distributed Consciousness, the second solo exhibition by Alison Jardine at the gallery.

In this body of work, Jardine reflects on the environmental and existential challenges facing our time, drawing particular focus on the implications of the 2024 presidential election and its environmental consequences. Jardine contextualizes the loss of biodiversity within her own lifetime, noting that three-quarters of life forms have vanished or gone extinct, underscoring the scale of ecological disruption.

Relocating from Ohio to California, Jardine draws on the disorientation of being a stranger in a new environment while her digital presence remains unchanged. This experience parallels the increasing separation between humanity and wildlife, as synthetic lifestyles distance us from the natural rhythms that once connected all living beings. Jardine's work highlights how this divergence disrupts not only human identity but also the ecosystems that sustain life.

Seeking new ways to find direction within places, people, and systems, Jardine paints remnant-like sticks and creates molds of small, nature-based ephemera spliced with vibrant manufactured colors. These works form an archive that envisions a possible archaeology of future materials that propose alternative methods for navigating and understanding our place in a rapidly changing world.

Jardine’s artwork has been collected worldwide, she has exhibited across the US, including Dallas, New York, San Francisco, Connecticut and Georgia, and internationally in Kiev, Ukraine. She studied at the University of London, studied digital arts and technology at the University of Texas at Dallas, and in 2017 graduated from the College of Visual Art & Design at the University of North Texas with an MFA in Studio Art.