JACKIE ANDREWS

Monkton, MD | jackiegemcreative.wordpress.com

My queer- and genderqueer identity are central to my work across disciplines: first and foremost, I aim to be in conversation with the queer community and provide a platform for the queer, feminist experience in my work. I am committed to creating artwork, writing, platforms, and spaces that reflect those values.

This body of work is a love letter—both to my past self, and the evolving queer identity I’ve come to know in adulthood. The works are equally reflective—pondering the turmoil and uncertainties of young love; and defiantly joyful—reveling in the complexities of embracing my ever-changing relationship to queerness in a world that is not always nurturing.

My studio work explores the intersection between collage, sculpture, and jewelry, often taking the form of wearable curiosity cabinets, color studies in three-dimensional space, or ephemeral, decadent environments. Through these explorations, I investigate my relationship to queerness and gender, and the conceptual structures of kitsch aesthetic and nostalgia. Thematic playfulness and questioning come through dialogue between materials, “power clashing” styles, and queer historical references in my studio practice. My practice challenges norms and blurs boundaries in order to build speculative, queer discourse in the contemporary craft, art, and art history fields alike.