BACKSPACE.GALLERY
January 27 - March 3, 2023
Opening Reception : Feburary 3, 2023. , 4pm - 8pm
1st Floor Jack Arends Building, Dekalb IL
Javier
Jasso
Artist
Statement
"Over my lifetime, I have moved several times, from city to residence, neighborhood, nationally and internationally. This way of living influences my practice as a sculptor. I explore what these different states of moving from one place to another signify to me.
In my work, I transform the familiarity of a domestic space into a liminal one, where ‘home’ is both an idealized concept and physical reality, paradoxical poetical, and perhaps fictional. Through sculpture, I examine space in an ever-evolving concept in today’s global society. My interested in tradition, nomadic life-migration and displacement, helps me elaborate and construct ideas of selfhood, origin, and survival. In the work, a sense of irony and absurdity is projected through the objects’ function,
racing questions of usability, permanence and impermanence."
Javier Jasso is an artist born in Chicago and raised in Guadalajara, Mexico. He lives and works on the Southside of Chicago, Back of the Yards neighborhood. Javier is a metaphorical and literal builder. Many of the materials he uses come from recycled sources such as metal, plaster, plastic concrete and wood, materials that he collects from his neighborhood, along with ceramic, a medium and practice that he carries with him from his hometown of alfareros in Guadalajara, Mexico, and that he also links to his birth place, Chicago, a city that was known for its brick factories in the early 1900s. Through sculptures and installations, he challenges, and doubts our assumptions of space, and place. He use these materials because they produce an entry point into questions around foundation for protective structures in global society, nomadism, ideas of selfhood, origin, home and displacement.
He received his BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his MFA from The University of Illinois of Chicago. He was a fellow at the DFI where he was awarded $12,000. Javier’s shows include Evanston Art Center, Humboldt Park Vocational Center, McLean County Art Center, Gallery 400, University Club Chicago, and Sullivan Gallery. He is currently teaching
Drawing at Wilbur Wright College.
Artist
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