Laura Roulet interviews Jefferson Pinder for Sculpture Magazine's July/August edition.
Please click here to read the full interview.
Jefferson Pinder's work has recently been written about in a series undertaken by Sanguine Gallery.
"How to Remember in America" by Niama Safia Sandy
Through engaging the historical references, research, and community involvement present in Pinder's exhibition, Niama Safia Sandy asks: "Is the past ever truly apart from us? Or is it more like a haint - a spectre hanging in the air vying for us to attend matters left unsettled?"
"Ghostlight: Race and Representation at the Figge Art Museum with Jefferson Pinder" by Mariah Shevchuk
By focusing on the communities' self description of the areas around the Figge Museum, Mariah Shevchuk observes: "Depending on who you ask, the City of Davenport and the Quad Cities could be in two different hemispheres, let alone part of a single metropolitan area that straddles the same river. Similarly, asking one resident about the area’s history of race relations will garner a completely different answer than asking another—divergent views emerge depending on where in the Quad Cities the respondent lives, as well as their age, gender, race and personal experiences."
LES ABATTOIRS
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Toulouse in France
April 6 to August 26, 2018
Following the long-term loan of its contemporary art collection to Les Abattoirs, Musée - Frac Occitanie Toulouse, the CNES Space Observatory announced in 2017 that the CNES arts-sciences laboratory would pursue its collaboration with the museum in Toulouse. The two institutions are joining forces to present, from 5 April to 26 August 2018, a new exhibition entitled Zero Gravity that will deal with the artistic exploration of the adventure of space and the figure of the artist as an astronaut.
More information can be found at:
http://www.lesabattoirs.org/en/expositions/zero-gravity
LOUISVILLE
21c Museum Hotel
March 2018 - March 2019
Bedecked and bejeweled, the figures populating Dress Up, Speak Up occupy fluid space and time, evoking past and present, fact and fiction, memory and desire, to illuminate the complexity of contemporary identity.
- Alice Gray Stites, Museum Director, Chief Curator
More information can be found at:
https://www.21cmuseumhotels.com/museum/exhibit/dressupspeakup
Jefferson Pinder was awarded the USA Joyce Fellowship in 2016 for his work in performance. The United States Artists website writes:
"Jefferson Pinder’s work provokes commentary about race and struggle. Focusing primarily with neon, found objects, and video, Pinder investigates identity through the most dynamic circumstances and materials. Through his meditative exploration with light and sound or his intensely grueling corporeal performances, he delves into conversations about race. His exploration of sound, music and physical performance are conceptual threads to examine history, cultural appropriation, and portrayals of exertion and labor. Creating collaged audio clips and surreal performances he underscores themes dealing with Afro-Futurism and endurance. "
More information on this award can be found here:
unitedstatesartists.org