Lisa Jarrett
Installation View | September 2018
Installation View | September 2018
Installation View | September 2018
Installation View | September 2018
Installation View | September 2018
Installation View | September 2018
Installation View | September 2018
Installation View | September 2018
Installation View | September 2018
Installation View | September 2018
Installation View | September 2018
Imagining Home—100 exercises in empathy (part 3), panels 1-5
2018
laserjet print on vinyl, acrylic substrate
10.5 inches diameter, each
Imagining Home—100 exercises in empathy (part 3), panels 1-5 (detail)
2018
laserjet print on vinyl, acrylic substrate
10.5 inches diameter, each
Imagining Home—100 exercises in empathy (part 3), panels 6-10
2018
laserjet print on vinyl, acrylic substrate
10.5 inches diameter, each
Imagining Home—100 exercises in empathy (part 3), panels 11-15
2018
laserjet print on vinyl, acrylic substrate
10.5 inches diameter, each
The Treachery of Assimilation
2018
GOBO projection on acrylic substrate
dimensions variable
Imagining Home (detail)
2018
non-archival laserjet print on 20 lb bond paper, edition of 100
48 x 36 inches
Imagining Home -100 exercises in empathy (Part 3) by Lisa Jarrett is a participatory drawing project. Jarrett invited select participants to take turns creating an imaginary homeland from the same wad of her hair. The resulting three-dimensional drawings were then photocopied to create the two-dimensional maps presented in the exhibition. These maps are both symbols and questions.
Lisa Jarrett is an artist and educator. She is Assistant Professor of Community and Context Arts at Portland State University’s School of Art + Design. She is co-founder and co-director of KSMoCA (King School Museum of Contemporary Art) in NE Portland. Her intersectional practice considers the politics of difference within a variety of settings including: schools, landscapes, fictions, racial imaginaries, studios, communities, museums, galleries, walls, mountains, mirrors, floors, rivers, and lenses. She exists and makes socially engaged work within the African Diaspora. She recently discovered that her primary medium is questions.
Lisa Jarrett, Melanie Stevens, and Samantha Wall created three simultaneous exhibitions as a singular gesture. Their themes—the racialized body, the poetry in its cultural tells, and the wit required to endure criticism—disrupted Portland’s oft ubiquitous fall exhibition calendar.
Pairing concurrent shows by Melanie Stevens, an emerging artist, and Lisa Jarrett, an established artist and professor of social practice at Portland State University, was the suggestion of their fellow artist Samantha Wall, who has a solo show at Russo Lee Gallery at the same time.