COOPER COLE is pleased to present A Razor for an Apple, an exhibition by G.B. Jones. This marks the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery.

For the occasion, Scott Treleaven has written the following text:

G.B. Jones is recognized as a legend of the early 90s avant-garde, and as one of contemporary art’s great creative polymaths. When the curators of the Brooklyn Museum’s lauded Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines exhibition were assembling their dizzying checklist of over two-thousand artifacts, they were struck by how often Jones was cited by other artists: a genre-and medium-hopping influence that spans decades. Jones has also been adroitly situated alongside other iconoclastic conceptualists such as Cady Noland, Raymond Pettibon, Karen Kilimnik, and Mike Kelley. Like Noland, Jones operates with a material slyness barely concealing a seething fury, while the similarities to Kilimnik, Pettibon, and Kelley can be read in her world-building deployment of Pop and…