NEWS
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Dock 6 Collective Festival, CHICAGO
Dock 6 Collective www.instagram.com/p/DKNtHTRvYWn/?hl=en&…
What Material Do I Want to Be?
The Franklin www.instagram.com/p/DH2wOtouNRz/?img_in…
Material and intention are at the core of art making. The material that an artist uses can be as essential to their practice as the thematic explorations that propel creation. As we explore the motivations that ignite art makers to commit to a form, a material and content, What Material Do I Want To Be? explores the poetry behind the craft that comprises a work of art. For this exhibition a group of artists that explore materials and content at various frequencies, letting the ideas become a part of the foreground as well as the materiality that embodies their expression.The title of this exhibition was inspired by a conversation with artist Paola Cabal regarding artistic practices.
Take Me to Another Place, Another Way.
Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago (TSA-Chi)
Photos by Tom Van Eynde
Jaclyn Jacunski is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist who has exhibited locally and nationally in museums, public spaces, and galleries. Her work engages the intersections of the aesthetic and the political by using research as a tool to interrogate contested spaces. This interrogation is a search for understanding and attention in political controversies that surround land, communities, and acts of resistance. Known for using materials scavenged from building sites, often in gentrifying neighborhoods, Jacunski reveals how neighborhood landscapes become expressions of a lived experience resisting powerful cultural systems such as gentrification, environmental threats, and state violence. Currently, she is the Director of Community Engagement at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), where she works closely with local leaders and residents of the West Side neighborhood of North Lawndale to develop art and design programming with the community. Jacunski has an M.F.A. in Printmaking from SAIC and a B.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and has taught at SAIC and Harrington College of Design.