C.C.C.P. Gallery’s Satellite State Room will present Proof: Paintings and Sculpture by Jennie Booth and Lakela Brown.

In today’s world of fast answers to tough questions, truth seems predicated more on the number of tweets and viral links a topic garners than by any meaningful research and analysis With “Proof” artists Brown and Booth turn April fools on their collective ear by showing us that the answers to some questions can only be proven by a ripping open of the soul.

The two former Chicago artists met in 2007 at Mano Y Mente, an artist residency program in Tularosa, New Mexico. Brown was still based in Chicago, Illinois, showing with Moca Gallery, while Booth was working between NYC and Los Angeles, where she recently showed at Poor Dog Group Art Warehouse. Reunited in New York City, they present a powerful exhibit in this tiny new Williamsburg space.

Jennie Booth’s oil and beeswax paintings are an amalgam of painting traditions, incorporating her extensive study of iconographic forms from the Madhubani painters of Bihar to the stained glass like portraiture of Rouault. Booth’s unique process of layering cold beeswax medium onto paper or canvas into which she then literally incises her images creates an intriguing, rough effect. The work requires an attentive eye to detail as subtle symbolic references are hidden throughout each tableau.

Lakela Brown works primarily in cast materials, but considers her work, “painting and drawing in 3-d.” Her pieces express the weight of memory, the implications of history, and the burdens that one carries through life because of it. With a nod to the earlier works of Kiki Smith, Lakela has developed her distinct iconography, unsettlingly silent, raw and truthful.