Thursday, September 9, 2021

NEW TIME: 5:00 - 7:30 PM drop-in hours

Free

Exhibiting artists Allison Paschke and Jacqueline Ott will be in the galleries from 5 - 7:30 pm during Gallery Night to answer your questions and talk informally about their work in Scaling the Wall. Stop by, meet the artists, and see their artwork up-close. The format of this talk has been changed to better facilitate social distancing while in the gallery.

Scaling the Wall is view at the JAC through October 9.

About the Artists:

Jacqueline Ott is an artist in Providence with a studio in Pawtucket RI. Born in Camden, New Jersey, she received a BFA from University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design.

Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; Newport Art Museum, Newport RI; and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum. Corporate collections that include her work are Fidelity Investments, Meditech, Boston Ritz-Carlton Residencies, the Dialysis Centers of Rhode Island, and Edwards and Angell, Providence RI. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Philadelphia, Providence, RI, Boston, MA. and Abu Dhabi.

Awards she’s received include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fund, Rhode Island State Council for the Arts Fellowship in Drawing and Printmaking, Rhode Island State Council for the Arts Fellowship in Painting, and Rhode Island State Council for the Arts Artist Project Grant.

After her first eight years growing up in Providence, RI (both parents were RISD alums), Allison Paschke spent her childhood moving around the country with her artist mother. Small living spaces and an itinerant lifestyle encouraged her natural tendency toward working in miniature.

Her first BFA at UC Santa Cruz focused on photography, a pursuit that led to a lifelong interest in light. Paschke then worked as a graphic designer. Many hours spent at the drafting table are visible in the geometric layout and precision in much of her work. A desire to work directly with physical materials lead to her discovery of porcelain; she then went on to receive a second BFA in ceramics from KCAI, as well as an MFA in ceramics from the Cranbrook Academy of Art.

In 1999 Paschke and her family settled in Rhode Island. Living with two very active children encouraged her tendency to make meditative, quiet work. Having more studio space allowed her to work on a larger scale, though she continues to make small, intimate works. Paschke’s current work explores geometry and light through wall pieces and installations. She uses reflective and translucent materials such as mirrors, porcelain, acrylic gel mediums, glass, and resin. Her work is often interactive in terms of touch, light, and sound.

In addition to her studio practice Paschke has curated and participated in several large-scale installation-based exhibitions, including three in Rhode Island and one more recently in New York City. These endeavors have connected her to other artists, with whom she has completed a number of collaborative projects. She is currently a national member of the women’s cooperative A.I.R. in New York City.

Paschke has shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions locally and nationally. Her work is included in corporate and museum collections including the Newport Art Museum, the Kansas City Art Institute Museum of Art, and many private collections around the world. She was the recipient of RISCA’s second place fellowship in “new genres.”