City / State / Zip / Country: montevallo, Alabama, 35115, United States
My profession: Art
Current/Upcoming Shows: Role Playing: Using the figure in contemporary art
including HoWaYaDa Klann's interactive sound installation:
flusaudiuxtory: intermental transdio expeririactive aumition
@ Lite Box Gallery
February 12 - March 13, 2010
Opening Reception: February 12, 5-9pm
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=273065526309&ref=ts
music / noise / performance event:
A Very Spening Evecial
February 18, 7:30pm Free/BYOB
HoWaYaDa Klann & Phantom Limb + intermental expeririactive language arrangement, roying plale and more (maybe) TBA
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=316274107592&ref=mf
2825 2nd Avenue South
Birmingham, AL 35222
T Project
APW Gallery
March 5 - April 26, 2010
Opening Reception: March 5, 7-9pm
48-18 Van Dam Street
Long Island City, NY
http://apwartgallery.com/
About my work: Compelled by the controlling role rhythm can play in an often chaotic environment, it is my goal to provide series of concentrated images, forms and when possible audio/visual experiences that will describe or depict discoveries of simple, rhythmic elements. A search for essential and orderly properties of organic forms, patterns, and systems directs my explorations where collected material is dissected and recorded as stylized data. The outcome of these exercises in observation and dissection as thematic intent has become apparent in all my work including drawing, printmaking, bookwork, and ceramics, as well as multi-media installation and performance art.
Currently, my studio is in the Strand Theater Building in Montevallo, AL where I am developing new bodies of work for 2010-2012 exhibitions, installations and performances. “drawing mountains” is a series of pen and ink drawings, watercolor mono-serigraphs and unique book works inspired by photographs of mountain ranges, developed in collaboration with the Mountain Maker Cohorts FaceBook Group. “texturial” is the working title of an in-process multi-media performance/installation utilizing descriptive words and my “pen and ink studies” as a foundation for developmental elements of sound, video, sculpture, and movement. In January 2010 I began exploring interactive installation and performance work using assemblage and electronics, along with language manipulation and playful game exercises as a member of HoWaYaDa Klann, a collaborative group featuring Larry Hoagland, Brad Davis, myself and sometimes Walker Yancey. In addition, my “pen and ink studies” and “orbis poculli” (atmosphere fired ceramic pinch pots) series, as well as further installation and performance explorations are in process.
jessmariewalker has 28 members in her Creative Circle
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Past Clients and Projects include: SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, INSTALLATIONS, & PERFORMANCES
2010 “flusaudiuxbox: transdio aumition exercise,” a HoWaYaDa Klann amplified audio box and game involving sound identification and language manipulation for “A Reader’s Art: the 10th Anniversary.” Curated by Jon Coffelt. Susan Hensel Gallery. Minneapolis, MN.
2010 “T Project,” a group exhibition of original T-shirts. Exhibiting six one of a kind, hand-pulled serigraph T-shirts. Designed and printed in collaboration with master printer, Patrick Mayton of Courageous Press. APW Gallery. Long Island City, NY.
2010 "flusaudiuxtory performallation," a HoWaYaDa Klann music, noise, and performance piece for "A Very Spening Evecial." Lite Box Gallery. Birmingham, AL.
2010 "flusaudiuxtory: intermental transdio expeririactive aumition," a HoWaYaDa Klann interactive sound installation using assemblage and electronics for "Role Playing: Using the figure in contemporary art." Curated by Kate Merritt Davis. Lite Box Gallery. Birmingham, AL.
2010 "thwerktwijgendenn," a HoWaYa Klann dwelling for "Edge of Winter: A selection of contemporary Birmingham area artists." Curated by Kate Merritt Davis. Lite Box Gallery. Birmingham, AL.
2009 “drawing mountains box no.1,” a Mountain Maker Cohorts Project for Gallery 1. Curated by Jon Coffelt. Central Booking. Brooklyn, NY
2009 “Sketch It Out,” a group drawing exhibition. APW Gallery. Long Island City, NY.
2008 “Water Closet Installation,” a two-person installation with Walker Yancey. Bare Hands Gallery. Birmingham, AL.
2007 “Re:re (Forward:fwd:fwd: forward),” a multi-media performance written and directed by Karen Graffeo, performed in collaboration. Waterloo Center for the Arts. Waterloo, IA.
2006 “Contour: The Definitive Line,” a group exhibition. Curated by Jon Coffelt. Schedler Minchin Fine Art. Homewood, AL.
2004 “Vanncox and Dean: Aeramonia,” a two-person exhibition with Wendi Flowers. Bare Hands Gallery. Birmingham, AL.
2002 “forestial:studyA1,” a multi-media performance written and directed in collaboration with Collin Adams for The Strictly Avant Garde Series. Performed by Lloyd Bricken, Christopher Bayerle, Ali Gonzenbach, and Codi Head. Steiner Auditorium, Birmingham Museum of Art. Birmingham, AL.
2002 “study for transitional space with accessible passageways and rooms for mutation,” a solo installation. Bare Hands Gallery. Birmingham, AL.
2002 “29 or 30 o’clock: an exploration of dislocation,” a multi-media performance written, directed, and performed in collaboration with Davey Williams for G.o.R.A.inMotus. Eyedrum. Atlanta, GA.
2001 “fissure no. 071725,” a multi-media performance written, directed, and performed in collaboration with Paul C. Wilm, Jacob Isaacs, Jennifer Shurbet and Randall Shurbet for the New Arts Stage of City Stages. Birmingham Museum of Art Foyer. Birmingham, AL.
2001 “Significant Pituitary Stimulation,” a solo installation for the group exhibition, “Firsts: the personal and the historical.” Curated by Tracie Noles Ross. Sponsored by the Women’s Studies Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Bare Hands Gallery. Birmingham, AL.
2000 “Sleep Writing,” a solo in-process performance written and performed for “Journal of Influences: Friends and Mentors.” Curated by Pinky/MM Bass. Eastern Shore Art Center. Fairhope, AL.
2000 “Projects for Poems,” a video installation (instructions by Joan Brossa.) for “Do It,” a conceptually based traveling exhibition. Conceived and curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist in 1992. Atlanta College of Art Gallery. Atlanta, GA.
1999 “trash no. 1,“ a video installation for “Up South,” a group exhibition involving 11 artists from the Southeastern United States. Coordinated by Space One Eleven, the Civil Rights Museum, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. University of Alabama at Birmingham Visual Arts Gallery. Birmingham, AL.
ARTS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2009 Art Coordinator and Instructor of “Nature’s Hideout: Creative Backyard Building” workshops for children at Wonderkid Studios of Moss Rock Festival in Hoover, AL at The Village Green of The Preserve. http://www.MossRockFestival.com
2009 Art Instructor of Printmaking and Ceramics for children and adults at Shelby County Arts Council in Columbiana, AL. http://www.shelbycountyartscouncil.com
2009 Art Instructor of “Color Shape Mobiles” workshop for children at Imagination Festival of ONB Magic City Art Connection, a fine art festival held in downtown Birmingham, AL at Linn Park. http://www.MagicCityArt.com
2008-present Art Coordinator and Instructor for Shelby County Arts Council's "Art Abilities" program providing special project art classes for children with special needs in select Shelby County Schools. Columbiana, AL.
2008 “Art Bash '08: Silver Leafed,” designer/director of interactive installations for ONB Magic City Art Connection's annual fundraiser. Tillman-Levenson Building, Birmingham, AL.
2007 “Art Bash '07,” designer/director of interactive installations for ONB Magic City Art Connection's annual fundraiser. Intermark Building, Birmingham, AL.
2006-2008 Artist, Arts Ed. & etc.spaces Coordinator for Moss Rock Festival, a contemporary art festival "Celebrating Nature & Open Spaces through Art & Design" in Hoover, AL at The Village Green of The Preserve. http://www.MossRockFestival.com
1999-2008 Artist & Arts Ed. Coordinator for ONB Magic City Art Connection, a contemporary art festival held in downtown Birmingham, AL at Linn Park. http://www.MagicCityArt.com
1999-2005 Art Director, Marketing/Sales Assistant, and Product Development Consultant for Chelsea House, Corp. Chelsea, AL.
2001 Curator and Coordinator of Traveling Exhibitions, Opening Events, and Performance Programming for G.o.R.A.inMotus, a Group of Revolving Artists in Motion. mono09pod & Bare Hands Gallery. Birmingham, AL. Eyedrum. Atlanta, Ga.
1999-2001 Curator/Director of Art Exhibitions and Performance Programming for mono09pod. Birmingham, AL.
Why you'd want to hire me: Since graduating from the University of Montevallo with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in 1994, I have continued to work as an interdisciplinary artist, allowing content to filter between various mediums, referencing one to another. Along with the production and exhibition of my studio work, I curate exhibitions and performance programming, design graphics for myself and other companies, design event installations, coordinate/instruct special project art classes for children and adults, and coordinate contemporary art festivals, competitions, and workshops.
