Juxtapoz Journal – Highlight: Jesse Mockrin @ Flag Artwork Basis, NYC

FLAG Basis’s Spotlight collection features a new or never-before-exhibited paintings paired with a commissioned piece of writing, creating targeted and considerate conversations between the visible arts and authors, critics, poets, students, and past. On this iteration, the Highlight options Jesse Mockrin’s A narrative advised this many occasions turns into the forest, 2025. The title of the work comes from the poem Daphne pursued by Apollo by Sophia Stid (2020). A textual content by writer Carmen Maria Machado accompanies the presentation. 

Mockrin’s Highlight work might be featured within the artist’s upcoming solo exhibition on the Artwork Gallery of Ontario, opening September 13, 2025. Curated by Adam Harris Levine, the AGO’s Affiliate Curator of European Artwork, the exhibition will characteristic greater than 12 new large-scale work and works on paper, put in alongside work, drawings, and sculptures from the AGO’s European Assortment.

Above: Set up view of Highlight: Jesse Mockrin at The FLAG Artwork Basis, 2025. Images by Steven Probert