Amorelle Jacox’s spiritual science (opens in new tab)

Contributed by William Corwin / Depictions of spirits and monsters are often combinations of the diagrammatic and the visceral: attributes packaged in an erotic or terrifying container. Amorelle Jacox’s luminous female presences in “Mothers of Time,” now on view at Management, are unassuming and recessive beings peering out between throbbing bands of color and eerie cones of light. She populates her large-scale canvases with measurement devices – rulers, color wheels, and sundry visual and ge...