Selected work from August 2022 to August 2023
I came into the graduate program at UNCG with enthusiasm for pushing outward at the boundaries of my creative practice. I had been Bauhaus-influenced, design-minded, and favored (still favor) simple, minimal shapes, forms, and images. I got messy, and I allowed inquiry to overpower craft. I’m glad I did.
Large Drawings
As I completed my ritual of walking at least five miles every day for 1,000 consecutive days, I began to understand there was a disconnect between my walking and drawing practices. While walking was a physically and perceptually open experience, drawing had been tight, my body hunched over a table, making fussy lines. I started to explore how I could get my body more involved with my drawings.
I drew at different scales and experimented widely with various mark-making strategies and materials, both traditional and nontraditional. As I made drawings, I put them into motion, constantly placing them in new contexts by moving, deconstructing, and transforming them into new forms.
Working Artist: a one-week work performance at Greensboro Project Space; June 2023
I arrived in the space on Monday at 8 a.m. and worked until 5:00, with an hour for lunch. I repeated this for four more days until I had worked forty hours in the space, stopping at 5 p.m. on Friday–we enjoyed the result at the opening of the exhibition an hour later. This turned out to be a community event, and when
Gatewood Gallery Summer Residency; July 2022
This was a continuation of the project below, Working Artist. I collaborated with an artist friend, Peter Deligdisch, to improvise the construction of a space starting with no preconceived notion of what would happen and with only some simple materials. We found a common language through our marks and worked until we had to stop. After hundreds of hours of building, the installation existed as a whole construction for about ten minutes. Then, as an ongoing non-attachment exercise, we began its deconstruction. The work was finished when the gallery was returned to its blank state.
Working Artist; Greensboro Project Space; June 2022
Intersection Intervention
I stationed myself at the corner of Spring Garden and Tate Street every day for 100 days, brandishing a different sign daily. I wanted to see if putting my body into a public space, mitigating with an encouraging or funny sign, could be used to build connections with strangers. What unfolded was surprising and impactful.
Drawings, Paintings, and Prints
There are many, many. Check out my Instagram for more! https://www.instagram.com/jasonearllord/
Wood Assemblage
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