Illumination Series
The Illumination Series is a collaboration between Walton Arts Center and Creative Community Center. The partnership's mission is to highlight practicing Arkansas affiliated artists and the Creative Community Center's engagement in visual arts while spotlighting large scale visual art that responds to the site and speaks to an architectural scale.
Exhibition
Jessica Brandl
LOCATION: Walker Atrium at Walton Arts Center
ARTIST'S STATEMENT :
Jessica Brandl: WAC Illumination Series Jessica Brandl, a Midwesterner by mannerism, is an American artist, focused in the ceramic material, creating pottery, sculpture, paintings, and drawings. Set in landscapes with looming architecture, turbulent skies, and misplaced objects, Brandl’s work exposes historical and eccentric places engulfed in psychological scenarios - both sinister and sublime. Surprising spatial arrangements and disjunctive scale shifts support a voyeuristic sense of seeing things from the inside out. Her current work serve as pointed souvenirs of history and the path to American-ness.
Brandl received her MFA from The Ohio State University and BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute. She is the recipient of awards including the Visiting McKnight Resident Artist, Windgate Scholar and the Rudy Autio inspiration Grant. She has an extensive national residency, lecture and exhibition record including Alaska and Hawaii, and has exhibited internationally in Canada, France, and Italy. Her works are included in the permanent collections of The Everson Museum, The New Orleans Museum of Art, The Archie Bray Foundation, The Morean Center Collection, and The Rosenfield Collection.
She Currently resides in Kalamazoo Michigan where she is an Assistant Professor at Western Michigan University.