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 james jessop 'subway ghosts'
 to access audio and video on collective you need real player.Jumping someone else’s train. Moving graffiti in from the streets to gallery walls is understandable – everyone needs to make a living - but this environment stinks so strongly of cash that it’s a little embarrassing. Learning his trade in back alleys, Jessop has replaced his spray cans with oils. Instead of decorating the city, he now captures urban scenes (complete with sprawling tags) on canvas. A knowledge of his subject brings stories, and thus life, to the paintings (like tributes to fallen comrades), but there is no singular vision here that hasn’t been done before. An assimilation of American culture as subject and style leads to rather dull work. One part of the show is interesting: the images of ladies brought to life by the adventurous brush strokes depicting their abdomens, or with poised, elongated neon talons reminiscent of Raymond Pettibon at his angriest. But these are a lone discovery, suggesting Jessop has himself not yet realised that the scrutiny of the opposite sex is something he enjoys more than staring at trains all day. James Jessop, Subway Ghosts, is at Sartorial Contemporary Art, London, until 05 October 06.
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