Jackie Branson

Pawling, NY
Residency: September – October 2013

Project Description
In both its imagery and materials, my work is an exploration of identity and appearances. By repurposing oriental rugs, I attempt to connect my Armenian heritage to an ever-evolving understanding of domesticity, while my use of saw blades functions as a kind of armor, a reaction, in the era of social media, to the increasingly public nature of our private lives. By re-imagining the nature of these rugs, as well as moving beyond them with trucks and abstracted forms, I am exploring the relationship between approachability and intimidation, while creating a flux between masculine and feminine.

About the Artist
Jackie Branson holds a BFA from the University of New Hampshire, where she studied printmaking and drawing, and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied printmaking, digital media, and sculpture. She has studied art at the Instituto Internazionale dell Arte in the city of Perugia, located in central Italy, and studied advanced digital media at the Gnomon School in Hollywood, California. She has held artist’s scholarships at the Chautauqua Institute and the Vermont Studio Center and a fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Besides her recent invitation to Sculpture Space, Jackie will also be an artist-in-residence at the Millay Colony later in the year. Her work has been exhibited at galleries in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania. She lives and works in Pawling, New York.