Jacqueline Forest Andrews

Statement

My work serves as content through which to explore technique, formal concerns, and experimentation. My process is rooted in drawing, but I bring new perspectives to each work by experimenting with the materiality of painting, printmaking, and photography. I explore different approaches to portraiture with larger themes of community and intimacy, reflecting on the relationships between the artist in space, the artist and model, the artist as a teacher, and the artist in collaboration. I believe that the viewer is as interesting as the artist, and therefore I am particularly interested in artwork that gives the viewer agency. I believe that critical ideas in fine art should be presented with as much intellectual accessibility as possible to the general public.

GlogauAIR Project

At GlogauAIR, I will explore the gap in translation and make tangible the feeling of ephemeral loss of understanding between languages. In the written word, the medium between the artist’s thoughts and feelings and the reader is language. When a poem or piece of writing is translated, some of the nuance is lost between mediums. Much like in translation between languages, the information in a drawing can be distorted by its medium. I will draw using techniques where I lose control over the medium, so that my images are subject to warp and change. The viewer is left with a document that looks just symbolic enough to signify a memory and meaning. One can intuitively feel a semblance of what was once there while still feeling the layer of visual information lost. I will make a series of ink and watercolor drawings and collages on wet paper. This creates distortions that allude to the clearer image that was once on the paper but that was lost to the time and materiality of the medium.

CV Summary

Exhibitions

• 2021 – Another Day, Another Way, Group Exhibition, Missiongathering Church, Pasadena, USA
• 2021 Silent Fire, Group Exhibition, Yale Institute of Sacred Music, New Haven, USA
• 2020 Static Arts Collective, Group Exhibition, Online
• 2019 – Mirror, Solo Exhibition, Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles USA
• 2019 Window Of Fantasy, Group Exhibition, Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Projects

• 2021 – Silent Fire Project, Yale Institute of Sacred Music, New Haven, USA (animation in collaboration with Nasty Women Connecticut)
• 2021 – For Good, USC School of Cinematic Arts, Los Angeles, USA (film in collaboration with Director Lukas Dong)
• 2019 – Illustrator for endangered language revitalization project, Val di Fassa, Italy
• 2019 Her Voice Through Time, Kaufman School of Dance, Los Angeles, USA (Painting in collaboration with singer Maura Tuffy, dancer Celine Kiner, composer Sophie Matthieu, and poet Mikayla Stewart)

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