Jamie Warren will travel to Athens to display her modern style art to students.
From Brooklyn to the bricks of Court Street, Jamie Warren will travel to show her own unique style of art.
Warren will display her video and photographs in Trisolini Gallery and in the Kennedy Museum of Art. Often compared to Cindy Sherman, Warren investigates the modern female identity within popular culture fragmented by the Internet viral memes.
Due to Warren’s style of art, Petra Kralickova, curator of Kennedy Museum of Art and director of the School of Art + Design, invited Warren to come to Ohio University as a part of the visiting artist series.
“We invite national artists to both give lectures and to also show exhibitions,” Kralickova said. “We spoke to Jamie about coming here because we were interested about having our students have a discussion with her.”
Megan Carter, a senior studying retail merchandising, feels that the popular culture references will catch the eyes of others.
“I haven’t heard of Jamie Warren before, but I’m excited she’s coming,” Carter said. “All students are really into pop culture. She can help draw students in.”
Caitlyn Whipple, a sophomore studying special education and studio art, said this exhibit interests her.
“I think it’s a good idea,” Whipple said. “I’m really interested in learning about modern art more than older history art because I took an art history class and I don’t really know a lot about contemporary art. I feel like it’s a good idea to spread the news about what’s going on in modern art.”
Besides Warren’s unique photographs she also branches out to video as well and will have a video at the Trisolini Gallery of her work.
Kralickova described warren as a real cutting edge contemporary artist and said that it’s up to the students on what they feel from Warren’s photographs and video.
“Always when we bring an artist that pushes the boundaries, plays with new media and new image ideas, it’s always a hope for the students to just see what is being made out there,” Kralickova said. “What is being shown is what (the) artist is doing in terms of visual images, and because she is referring to pop culture a lot. We hope that will somehow connect with the young generation of artist and see what that means to them.”
While some artists tend to step back and look at their art work, Warren likes to be a part of it. Warren inserts herself into a new photography series exploring female stereotypes.
“She kind of camouflages herself in these handmade costumes and extensive make up,” Kralickova said. “She presents something that is normally Photoshop and recreates it with make up and with costumes without the Photoshop, so she’s kind of making it backwards.”
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