Jessica “JG” Gatlin: WFH//BIF (Works From Home // Before I Forget)
Exhibit: WFH//BIF (Works From Home // Before I Forget)
Artist: Jessica “JG” Gatlin
Reception: Saturday, June 24, 4-7p.m. - Richard B. Talkin Family Art Gallery
Gallery Dates: June 5 - July 30, 2023
This exhibit features a series of experimental textile compositions and assemblages that explore the intersections, overlaps, conflicts and disconnects of the artist’s matrilineal craft traditions and formal education in fine art.
Artist Bio:
Jessica “JG” Gatlin (she/her) is an artist, maker and part-time sorceress based in Baltimore, MD. In her interdisciplinary practice, JG uses both speculative and terrestrial approaches to pursue ways to deconstruct and dismantle the oppressive structures within a White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy. Jessica Gatlin received her BFA in Studio Art from Florida State University and MFA from the University of Tennessee - Knoxville. She has participated in several reputable artist residencies and fellowships, including the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, PL, the Ox-Bow School of Art, and Artist Residency, Saugatuck, MI. In 2019, JG served as the Hamblet Artist-in Residence at Vanderbilt University. Currently, she is Assistant Professor of Print and Extended Media at the University of Maryland, College Park.