Current Art Gallery Exhibits

an ode to Octavia and that which is forever begins with two seminal texts, which act as a material composite for guiding, connecting, and re-membering. It oscillates between interior and exterior worlds, collapsing time, while exploring how to shape a well-lived life in a world not designed for you, but too often shaped for and by your exploitation and harm.

The works and the material matter that inform each require one to pause and embody the presence. You have to slow down enough to look back while still moving forward in order to witness their intention. Living and navigating change are compositional methods for learning how to take what feels rough, what has been mishandled, and soften it with attention and time until it becomes something beautiful you can hold, rather than something that holds you. This is a practice of seeing all the ways life has been on your side, even and especially in the moments it did not feel that way.

Nothing here is static. It traces and then retraces what it means to leave home and then slowly again and again to build one within yourself and if you are lucky, alongside others.

Jazmine. is a multidisciplinary artist working across photography, video, embroidery, and text to examine and intertwine narratives. Memory — found and felt — serves as her primary material, while the acts of remembrance inform and shape the processes she employs. Addressing the beauty and failure of collective memory, she mines, co-creates, and collages archival materials to democratize associated practices, emphasizing the importance of connection, space, and reimagining the everyday familiar and unknown.

Jazmine. holds a BS from Florida A&M University and an MFA from the University of Chicago. She was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and is completing an MRes in Anthropology at University College London as a US–UK Fulbright awardee. Her work and practice have been recognized and shown by the Chicago Artist Coalition (HATCH Residency), A Public Space (Writing Fellow), the Hopper Prize, Kartemquin Films, Newcity (Breakout Artist), For Freedoms, the City of Chicago's DCASE Individual Artists Program, and EXPO Chicago/DCASE's OVERRIDE Billboard Project. For more details about Jazmine., visit her website and Instagram page.