JAYNIE CRIMMINS

ARTIST STATEMENT:

My work up-cycles and re-contextualizes images, words and printed textures from mass marketing catalogs, magazines and security envelopes to present personal, domestic and cultural narratives.

Shredding these materials breaks down their physical and ascribed composition, allowing me to replace, incorporate, or transform their original messages into my own accounts of the world.

The work applies approximate symmetry and meticulous fabrication of the shreds to create intimate sculptural reliefs. The decorative surfaces contain thousands of tiny components, each incorporating a fragment of information or imagery, chronicling a particular notion or experience.

BIO:

Jaynie Gillman Crimmins, a New York City based artist, creates alternative narratives from quotidian materials. Her work has been shown at ART on PAPER NYC; and exhibited at the Sharjah Museum of Art during the Islamic Arts Festival in the United Arab Emirates; SPRING/BREAK Art Show, NYC; Governor’s Island Art Fair, NYC; the National Museum of Romanian Literature in addition to museums throughout the United States including the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary, VA; Hunterdon Art Museum, NJ; Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, GA.