RAIR | 2009-10

Janice JakielskI

Janice Jakielski received her MFA in ceramics from the University of Colorado, Boulder and a BFA from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. Janice has presented exhibitions both nationally and internationally, and participated in numerous residency programs across the country including the Archie Bray Foundation, Millay Colony for the Arts and Djerassi Resident Artists Program. Most recently she was awarded one of three New England Craft Artist Awards through the Society of Arts and Crafts in Boston. She currently teaches at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and has a studio and laboratory in Sutton, Massachusetts.

http://www.janicejakielski.com

”As a child I had a large round mirror on the wall of my bedroom. I used to take it down and hold it at my waist, walking around the house looking into the reflection, stepping high over the doorframes, marveling at how different my familiar landscape had become.                    

I make objects to transform the world and how we interact with the world.  My recent work is an investigation of perception and experience.   Through mixed media body objects I am exploring methods of communication and the navigation of the spaces, both physical and mental, that we inhabit. 

I am interested in creating new ways, metaphorical and actual, of seeing, hearing and participating with our surroundings.  By disrupting or enhancing the senses, the objects make possible an exaggerated self-awareness, a break in the normalcy of daily experience.  With the body dressings I am creating a threshold space between reality and the imagination.  This work is a social experiment of sorts, a mediated event to explore communication, comfort and complacency through play.” —Janice Jakielski, 2010

Roswell Museum and Art Center

RAiR Exhibition • “Far from Near: an exercise in tempered communication” • March 20 - May 2, 2010