Jessica
Drenk - Artist Statement
An arrowhead collection: pieces of the past found and gathered as proof of what has passed. An insect collection: bodies pinned in rows, classified, a scientific database.
A book collection: thoughts recorded and kept safe, the mind laid out on paper to be visited in glimpses.
These groupings evoke our ephemeral nature, the continual changing of culture in the face of time, and the desire to create permanence out of life and thoughts which are fleeting. Bibliophylum is both a combination of these collections and also an entirely new body. Each piece has been separated, carved, from full books, and are now gathered into a new formation with new associations.
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Education
2007
MFA, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
2002
BA, Art Major, Cum Laude, Pomona College, Claremont,
CA
Exhibitions
Solo and Two-Person:
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2008 Compelling Matter, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
- 2008 Semi-permanent wall-installation, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
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2007 Beard Arts Center, Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, IN
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2007 MFA Exhibition, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
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2006 The Turning World, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
- 2006 Imprints, Lionel Rombach Gallery, Tucson, AZ
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2005
Reading our Remains, University of Arizona Library, Tucson, AZ
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2004
Curious Objects: An Installation by Jessica Drenk, The Forum Gallery, Claremont, CA
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2002
Thesis Exhibition, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
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Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
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2008 Penumbra, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
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2007 She Objects! II: Women Who Make Objects, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
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2006
Biennial Southwest, The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Juror: Neal Benezra, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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2006
Turning World, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
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2006
Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN
- 2006
Art One Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
- 2006 Casa Libre, Tucson, AZ
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2005
8th International Book Fair of Contemporary Creative Books, Marseille, France
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2005
Arizona Biennial, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, Curator: Siri Engberg, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
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2005
Residual Pull, Dinnerware Contemporary Arts, Tucson, AZ
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Bound and Unbound: Artist Books and Other Paper Constructions, Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, AZ
- 2005
Hayward Area Forum of the Arts, Hayward, CA
- 2005
Re-Visions III, Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, AZ
- 2005
Contents Interiors, Tucson, AZ
- 2004 Pomona College Alumni Symposium, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
- 2001 Pomona College Student Exhibition, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
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2006
International Sculpture Center's Outstanding Student Achievement in
Contemporary Sculpture Awards
- 2006
Arizona Artist’s Guild Scholarship
- 2006
Creative Achievement Award for graduate work in Art, University of Arizona
- 2006 Coris Family Trust Fine Arts Award, University of Arizona
- 2006 Albert Haldeman Scholarship, University of Arizona
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2005
Centennial Sculpture Award, University of Arizona
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2005
Medici Scholars Award, University of Arizona
- 2004 Graduate College Fellowship, University of Arizona
- 2002 Phi Beta Kappa, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
- 2002 Louisa Moseley Fine Arts Prize, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
- 2001 Rembrandt Junior Prize in Art, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
- 2001 Matthew Klopfleisch Memorial Prize in Art, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
Publications
- 2007 University of Arizona MFA Thesis Exhibition Catalog
- 2006 Sculpture Magazine, October
- 2006 The Albuquerque Tribune, October 5
- 2005 Transformations, University of Arizona College of Fine Arts publication
- 2005 “Arizona Illustrated”, KUAT-TV, PBS, Residual Pull
- 2005 “Arizona Illustrated”, KUAT-TV, PBS, Arizona Biennial
- 2003 Pomona College Magazine
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