23 June 2008

Jason Falchook

Jason Falchook (Courtesy of the artist)

(The following article is taken from the U.S. Department of State publication, Art on the Edge: 17 Contemporary American Artists.)

Untitled (Shopping Carts), 2003. Inkjet print. (Credit: Courtesy of the artist and Fusebox, Washington, DC)

"I use photography to investigate the communities we create to observe how we live and work within their parameters. I look at the way our neighborhoods and cities are organized to see how their structure reflects the way we live from day to day. With my camera I examine the way buildings, homes, and streets are divided up, and how property lines are demarcated, to consider our connection or disconnection to the spaces we occupy. We are surrounded by boundaries that often go undetected. I'm interested in the effects these boundaries have on us – how certain boundaries can impart limitations for some and create opportunities for others. The spaces we inhabit influence the types of relationships we form and the objects we surround ourselves with. My photographs vacillate between presence and absence, light and dark, proximity and distance, and consider the overlap of public and private space."

[Jason Falchook (b. 1976, New York, New York) attended The Corcoran College of Art + Design, Washington, D.C. (BFA 1998). Since then, he has exhibited his photographs in the Washington, D.C. area and beyond. He received a grant from the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities (2001), and has had solo exhibitions at Fusebox (2002) and Blue Acorn Studio (2000), both in Washington, D.C. He has shown in group exhibitions at Art Basel Miami Beach, in a show organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the U.S. Embassy, Brasilia, Brazil (2002); Signal 66 Art Space, Washington, D.C. (2000); Instituto de Arte Fotografico, Lima Peru (1999); and the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Florida (1998). Falchook lives and works in Washington, D.C.]