Jeremy Lundquist

Printmedia
Faculty

Background

Education
BA, 1999, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
MFA, 2003, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

Selected Exhibitions
Minneapolis Central Public Library, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, 400 Gallery, University of Illinois – Chicago, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota—Twin Cities, Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, Minnesota, Chicago Cultural Center, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, University of Iowa Art Museum, Highpoint Center for Printmaking.

Awards/Residencies
Ox-Bow Print Residency

Personal statement

Recently my work has shifted towards looking at objects that mark a passing and/or historical and tourist sites.  Memorials attempt to set a person or event into spatial history.  This operation often relies on a connection between text and image or form.  In exploring these relationships, the forms I represent are all truncated in some way. The writing or image stops short, and the viewer is given space to fill in information, conditioned or not.  The information provided becomes abstracted to the point of taking on several meanings.  Is the “Point of Interest” the bust of George Washington, simply the walls of a show cave, or somewhere in between?  Does the large stain combined with text about acknowledgement reflect on the current political environment?  This uncomfortable balance between what is present and lacking, what is expected and unexpected, familiar versus unfamiliar, results in a certain amount of humor, sadness, and confusion.

Caught somewhere between the insider and outsider, the familiar and the unfamiliar, we find ourselves in the space where we can be critical as well as connected.  I want to position us as tourists in America, but as if we have been here a hundred times before.  I am interested in our culture’s attempts to fit in every detail and the results of the impossibility of that action. Here lies the difficulty of knowing what to hold on to and what to let go of.