Art in Alternative Spaces

Featured Artist

Jacqueline Moses

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Member Exhibition

The Arts Club of Chicago
210 E. Ontario, Chicago, IL

Opening Friday, Jan 16, 2020

On exhibit through Feb 22, 2020

Finland - Threatened Sustainability

Artist's Statement/Bio

In the past few years I have been painting images derived from my travels and projecting my views for the future. All of these countries have been affected by technological developments and population growth. As a result, life styles of the people have altered, either due to environmental shifts or politically enforced such as relocation of farmers into government built city dwellings. We have all been affected by global changes, some more than others.

China’s government-forced urbanization is one of the largest and most apparent. Farmland has been contaminated with heavy metal residues and deadly toxic clouds are consuming the city skylines. Other countries are losing natural habitats necessary for the survival of the wild life and fauna living in each area. Changing the course of river flows, forest growth and drilling for oil are all affecting our ability to control our natural resources and the increase in global warming.

The imagery presented in my paintings is reflective of our times as is the technique used. All paintings in this series are a combination of photographic transfers and oil on canvas. All images are derived from my photography and juxtaposed to create the desired image.

Art is my mode of expression, the way I communicate my ideas and feelings to others. I am very conscious of my surroundings and know that each person experiences similar situations differently. I believe that anger and/or avoidance are often the way many try to deal with problematic situations. For society to evolve, we need a more honest approach. Calamities must be dealt with in a straightforward manner if improvement and healing are to take place.

My paintings are an expression of my ideas regarding problems that concern me. Guns emerging from the terrain as cacti, or rock formations, are used to transform a tranquil landscape into one riddled with threatening debris, and this raises questions concerning the legacies that we are leaving for posterity.

Reliquaries - Positive Alternatives

I found myself inundated with pleas to improve the environment, recycle, go green, save energy, or help stop global warming. This was voiced in all parts of the country and by a multiplicity of groups ranging from the big businesses down to the many smaller groups calling for a cleaner and better planet. Plastic in all shapes and forms, discarded and scrapes of metal, paper of all colors, anything imaginable was now being used for recycled art. 

When I was faced with putting all my works on cds I realized that my 3"x5" transparencies and 35mm slides were no longer of any use. How could these be used in art work? I went into my crawl space and found many pieces of wood and metal that I had been saving and collecting for over 30 years. I thought them beautiful then and still do. 

This present body of work is a combination of these two "bodies of things". The wood and metal are the receptacles for the slides that have now survived and are memorials of something past. 

In my first two works, Mirror & Sewing Machine, I left the slides as is: encased with all the markings left unchanged. For all the other works I removed the cases and just used the plastic slides combining them in relationship to the frame, color, size and content. 

Light is important in displaying the work. Some are hung on the wall and back lit (Sewing Machine). Chair, Baby Crib and Organ Pipe Frame are hung using a daylight and spotlight combination depending on the time of day. The table is lit with a light from beneath. The pipes that are on wooden blocks from my grandfather’s workshop are lit from inside. In this manner one can view the beautiful pieces of old wood and metal showcasing. They, in turn are used to enclose and combine an array of different shapes of colors and forms with each object. All are to be viewed with some light, accentuating the transparency of the slides and the subtle integration of the materials.

Portugal: Porto, photographic transfer & oil on canvas, 34"x48"

Portugal: Wild Fires #2, photographic transfer & oil on canvas, 32"x48"

Small Village; photographic transfer & oil on canvas, 18"x 24"

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