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Academic Level at Time of Creation
Junior
Date of Creation
Fall 12-5-2019
Artist Statement
My Art is mainly reality based, focusing on social commentary or narrative. Often covering themes of depression, disorders, disability, dilapidation, inequality, and struggles. I provide art that people can connect to on a personal and emotional level. Experience with bigotry and struggles with disorders and learning disabilities has influenced me to explore art that is unapologetically honest. With the goal of reaching out to people so they can see the good and the bad in the world, creating something they can relate to and connect with, so we can all stand together in solidarity.
I have experience with 2D and 3D media, focusing on photography because it helps me capture the level of honesty I like in my work. However, more recently I have been experimenting with Print, video, and sound. Exploring the same themes and addressing new ones, introducing theology more recently in some of my current work. As a practicing pagan who was raised catholic, I can find where things overlap and separate. I’m able to hold an open mind about faith, question, be curious, and look at theological stories from different angles.
My current project, “Dependency” is a print, etching on zinc, printed on Cream Stonehenge using blue-black mixed with white ink. Cream paper and blue-black ink have a medical feel, like the writing of a doctor’s pen on a prescription slip.
“Dependency” addresses behavioral disorders and the need for, or dependency on medication for these individuals to function. This specific work focusing mainly on ADHD, Learning disorders, and anxiety disorders. Referencing pills commonly prescribed for these conditions (Vyvanse for ADHD and Lexapro for Generalized anxiety disorders). Using these pills, I etched in the Words, “Pills Think” and hid them amongst a scatter of the same pills. Driving in the dependency on medication to function, that to some taking medication is the equivalent of being able to think.
Advisor/Mentor
Chris Lavery
Description
From horror to pride, wood sculpture, 2019, 24” X 24”
Constellation box, wood sculpture, 2019, 24” x 12”
Dependency, etching print, 2019, 15” x 11”
The Fallen, etching print, 2019, 15” x 11”
Untitled no.3, from documentary series, photography, 2018, 16” x 20”
Untitled no.2 from documentary series, photography, 2018, 16” x 20”
Untitled no.1 from documentary series, photography, 2018, 16” x 20”
Untitled no.4 from documentary series, photography, 2018, 16” x 20”
Holy Spirit window, photography, 2018, 8” x 10”
Portrait of a handicapped driver, photography, 2018, 16” x 20”
Untitled no.2 from A Motherly Father series, photography, 2019, 16” x 20”
Farrell’s Hamburger, photography, 2018, 8” x 10” Old Sinking fork, photography, 2018, 8” x 10”
Barn, photography, 2018, 8” x 10”
Life is Beautiful, photography, 2018, 8” x 10”
Camera Mug no.1, ceramics, 2019, 2” x 3”
Bee Mug no.1, ceramics, 2019 2” x 4”
Sunflower vessel, ceramics, 2019, 13” H
Red Mug, ceramics, 2019, 2” x 4”
Untitled, ceramics casting, 2019, 9” H
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
schroeder, jennifer, "Jay Schroeder pro-practice" (2019). Professional Practices (ART 399). 66.
https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/art399/66