Artist Bio
Good morning!
My name is Jack, a print maker and graphic designer based in Portland, Oregon, and originating from Tomball, Texas (a small town outside of Houston). I finished by BFA at Reed College in 2023 with a thesis on magic lanterns, grief, and moiré. The last of which still dominates my artistic practice.
Currently, I can be found selling my handmade prints, designing posters for and attending underground punk shows, volunteering in the letterpress studio at the IPRC, and generally out and about of my own foolish design.
Artist Statement
My art practice as a whole is centered on the interaction between the modern and the old, the physical and the digital. I'm really obsessed with old prints and printmaking, as a way that we used to communicate, and still do, just in new, faster, sloppier, ways.
This extends to other parts of my practice, too. I loved using an overhead projector instead of a digital one because projection is (now) a digital mode but was a physical one for hundreds of years. That's also why I love moiré and interference, its something we really associate with screens and the digital sphere but at its heart, it is a very physical, tangible, and real thing that is more an expression of a fundamental property of our reality than an abstract computerized creature.
I love to cling on to things that were here long before I was, and will stand long after I've withered away.
Thank you, kindly, for your time here today.