Artist Statement/ Biography

Jacq Groves’ practice explores spatial and temporal experiences of the body and investigates ways we attempt to understand the unknown. Their sculptures and installations work to disrupt the legibility of the recognizable. Using industrial materials, they ground unnameable, biomorphic ceramic sculptures in an uncanny facsimile of our lived-environment. They rely on material associations of the viewer to guide the interpretation of these unknowable forms. Informed by scientific inquiry, play, and speculative fiction, their practice responds to their lived experience and aims to destabilize assumptive binaries within sexuality, gender, and disability. More broadly, Groves’ work re-envisions life for those who defy reductive categorization.

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Jacq Groves is an artist, researcher, and educator currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Their work foregrounds sculptures and installations exploring queer ecology as well as spatial and temporal experiences of the body. In addition to graduating in May, 2022 from Columbia University’s visual arts MFA program, they were the recent recipient of the Joan R. Sovern Sculpture Award and of a Dean's Project Grant. Previously they’ve shown at The Jewish Museum in New York, Edgewood Gallery at Yale University, and The Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans. They recently accepted the Foundation Fellowship for teaching at Pratt Institute this fall. When not in the studio, they are avidly foraging mushrooms.

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