Since graduating from Cornell with an MFA in painting in 1998, Sam Jury has predominantly worked with photography and video. Interested in the gaps and fissures between moving and still images, Jury explores how they mediate between reality and imagination. forever is never is about constructing, deconstructing, and manipulating the photographic image. It developed during the making of a series of over-life-size photographic portraits. In a labor-intensive process that involved the sculpting of a blank head onto which the artist projected hundreds of portraits culled from historical as well as contemporary sources, Jury creates an animated portrait that is no one and everyone all at once. Reminiscent of the composite portraits created by Nancy Burson in the 1980s, Jury suspends the spectator between places and experiences remembered and imagined.