ARTIST STATEMENT JACLYN BLUMAS: Recently Jaclyn Blumas moved to Toronto to pursue her art and say FU to her fears. Blumas enjoys the live experience of moments in art and the participation in thought and action that creates an artistic statement. After completing her BFA at Emily Carr University in Vancouver, she is now avoiding all the lines between categorizations of music, performance and visual art, her work now seems to be based on the notion and constructions of what it means to be human. By tracing historical flows of forms and ideas, and locating strategies and hierarchies of representation within materials, Blumas examines the processes of selection that we make on a daily basis and highlights the constructions we all submerse ourselves in. Inspired by human beings and how we bisect rituals, Blumas is interested in answering questions on the existence of oneself in the politics of identity, thought, and social constructions.
These conceptual clusters entertain Blumas and are the basis of her art. Revisiting key moments in modernism; examining the city as a laboratory; reflecting on the Pop and conceptual legacy around text in art, Blumas indulges in linking the parallel vernacular between materials and words.
Tuesday June 29 - July 10
Reception June 29 • 7-9pm
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