David Jeffrey approaches his modest materials—principally charcoal, beeswax, rust, and paper—with a pragmatic understanding of their basic integrity. This exhibition presented a concise survey of Jeffrey’s practice between 1987 and 1996, when he refined his artistic actions (a word that suits his process better than "techniques"), arriving at works in which the paper surpassed its role as support, becoming equal to and inseparable from the subtle alterations made to it. These included folding or layering one or more sheets and applying charcoal and rust by rubbing, brushing, and scratching it into the surface. Wax could be melded to paper with the heat of the artist’s hand.