JACLYN BURKE
- PAINTER ,PERFORMER ,SCULPTOR, ARTIST -
About
As an artist she experiments with mulit-media in relation to cultural identity, mental health, politics and the human body. Some of her most recent works are mulit-media weavings, as she likes to call them multi-media quilts. They explore her ancestry by using symbols and language from Latin America. She uses wire, fabrics, yarn, beads, paint, artificial flowers and repurposed pochos. She creates soft sculpture flowers that are symbols of the beauty of Latin America countries.
Jaclyn finds creating artwork a spiritual experience, one of self discovery. Being that she is adopted art has become an important way for her to connect to and explore her Native-American, Indigenous and Mexican Ancestry and Culture. Most of her work uses bright vibrant color palettes similar to what we see in the art of Mexico. She is heavily influenced by iconographic imagery seen in Mexican, Native American and Meso-American art. She derives inspiration and creates her own imagery based on mosaic tiles of Mexico, Mexican textiles, skulls, Native American Gods, Meso-American Gods and ancient stories.
As an artist she finds it to be her job to make art not just to express herself and explore her own identity but to give a voice and representation to a historically underrepresented, underestimated nation and population. She finds her art as a way to honor her birth mother as well as a homage to her Mexican, Indigenous, Native-American, and Latin roots.
Portfolio
past exhibitions and Upcoming events
A celebration of art inspired by basketball in the heart of LIC. Hosted by Jaclyn Burke.
Join the artists and curator of Newhouse Center exhibition Here We Are: Young, Black, and Indigenous Women in the Art World as we discuss our experiences in a world where women of color are under-represented and under-appreciated.
I will be a moderator and guest speaker for an Online zoom program about the movie "Your Labs are Normal" directed by Rhisa Marie Parera and Jean Pierre Kathoefer. The discussion will focus auto-immune diseases and chronic illness and how they affect artists.
"Here We Are, curated by Shawnakay Salmon, is a showcase of five New York based woman artists who share their art as an extension of themselves. Featuring work by Jaclyn Burke, Ify Chiejina, Jodi Dareal, Debbie Roxx, and Arianna Santiago."
This summer group exhibition features unique sculptural installations, figurative photography, interludes of painterly abstraction, and photograph in words without a picture. All artworks on display, as is the mission of the Gallery, are from recent graduates, faculty members, alumni, and invited guest artists. Co-curated by Sally Morgan Lehman, director of Morgan Lehman Gallery and Jaclyn Burke.
The GSE (graduating student exhibition) includes work from senior in a variety of majors including fine art, illustration and toy design.
Quilt of Our Roots is now on display at Fien Coffee shop in Ridgewood Queens.
The work on display includes crocheted instillation, fibrous stitchery, hand made books, collages, theatrical garments, costumes for dogs, sketches from the COVID-19 lockdown, illustrations of an extraordinary shoe collection, a gigantic moss like sculpture, and a multi-media quilt from students, faculty, and guest artists. Open to the public M-F
Group art exhibition at Fable Jones Studio. Opening reception is October 15th from 6pm-9pm. Last day the show will be on view is October 24th. aLink to the event brite RSVP attached.
En Route is an art exhibition composed of emerging Hispanic and Latinx artist at the Fashion Institute of Technology. We are a diverse group of people who have come together to achieve our goals. As young artists, we are still "en route".
Press, Artist Talks, Interviews, Awards
Feature in October 2022 Edition of The Brooklyn Rail
Review of Jaclyns work featured in group exhibition "Here We Are: Young, Black, and Indigenous Women in the Art World" By William Corwin
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Recipient of Honorarium from The New House Center for Contemporary art
Honorarium was granted for Jaclyns participation in the "Here We Are" Exhibition
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Trailblazer of the Year Award (FIT 2022)
“The recipient of the TRAILBLAZER Award is a student who has made indelible changes within the FIT campus by way of policy creation, campus wide initiatives, student voice recognition, etc. This student has made significant, unique visionary efforts, desires to have a profound impact in their virtual campus community or their community, and in doing so blazes a trail for others to follow.”
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Virtual Artist Talk : Journal and Pattern
02/17/22 at 1pm Join us for a virtual presentation and discussion with Jaclyn Burke, Fine Arts 22'; Slavko Djuric, book artist and staff technologist, Fine Art and Photography; Bill Donovan, adjunct associate professor Illustration; Thomas Leach, exhibition installer; Lauren Zodel, assistant professor, Fashion Design and invited guest artists Woolpunk and Donna Cleary. The show will be on view through February 27. The gallery is open from 9am-6pm daily
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Interview with The Queens Ledger
Artists interview with The Queens Ledger.
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"What Makes you Optimistic?" for Fashion Institute of Technology
Jaclyn Burke along side other FIT students were interviewed for "What makes you Optimistic" directed and animated by the talented William Mun. This video was made for the Fashion Institute of Technology and was show at the Annual Gala at The Shed.
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"Were Back" Film for the Fashion Institute of Technology
Community. Freedom. Collaboration. Culture. How has life been at FIT since returning to campus? “We’re Back!” by director William Mun and cinematographer Diamond Abreu, both Film and Media BS '21, asked four current students to share their experiences and turned the results into a short film. Students featured: Lonnie Brown, Advertising and Marketing Communications BS '23 Jaclyn Burke, Fine Arts BFA '22 Stephen Campanella, Illustration BFA '22 Deepti Patra, Global Fashion Management MPS '23
Read MoreVIdeo/Performance work "A Roll of the Dice" 2020
Video/ Performance work 2 "Breaking out of the Doll House" 2020
Video Work "NAVIGATING LOSS" 2022
Contact
- New York, NY, United States