Jennifer Zackin

Lives and works in Bearsville NY

Artist statement

JENNIFER ZACKIN www.jenniferzackin.com I am a multimedia artist whose work explores the relationships between the earth, industrial processes, women/non-binary lives, and climate change. To explore the breadth of this subject matter, I make sculptures and installations, performances, collaborations, ceremonies, photographs, collages, and drawings. My art practice is in relationship with nature, restoring ritual into everyday life by creating acts of reverence and reciprocity. These processes suggest a different dialogue with the environment, a shift vital to addressing climate change. I experiment with the practice of traditional craft to develop innovative new techniques by fusing materials and processes. Creating these rituals is a way for me to somatically engage with the world in a time of global crisis. The connection I establish with my materials in the studio builds empathy, restoring vitality to the often-overlooked items I interact with on a daily basis. My practice has roots in the feminist, pattern & decoration art movements, in that I often use found objects from domestic life as the raw materials of sculptures that reconsider how the home can at once be a place of care and protection but also of oppression for women. I am interested in how large-scale industrial changes (the production of synthetic materials, for instance) affect both women’s/non-binary lives and the natural environment – and how these concerns might all relate to each other. For the...

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