September 5, 2022

Through appropriation, collage, and painting, Jeremy Chance makes art that ruminates on contemporary commercial imagery and its entanglements with technology, representation, mental health, and the body.

His work has been exhibited internationally, including at Office Baroque gallery, the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, and Maison Particulière in Belgium; the Djurhuus Collection in Copenhagen; Angell Gallery in Toronto; the Dalton Gallery at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta; and the Hecksher Museum of Art and La Mama Gallery in New York.  He received a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 2005, and an MFA from Hunter College in 2007.  Chance was born in 1983 in Tifton, GA.  He lives and works in New York’s Hudson Valley.

The initial concept for my project while at the IEA was to work with stock images that depict bodily pain through an overlay of glowing light. This motif aligned aptly with the light-based nature of many print processes, namely the halftone patterns used in screenprint, laser-etched woodblock, and photopolymer methods, and with this in mind, I came prepared with an archive of collected imagery, digital drawings, and collages. Ultimately, we produced three successful print editions, as well as other print-based experiments that indicate a basis for future work. The most successful of these was a piece developed on site and that combined four-color processes across multiple methods. Further, I produced 30+ unique large format inkjet works, effectively establishing a new way of working that will impact my studio practice into the future. Additionally, I produced a video work, pulled numerous high resolution scans for future source material, and took advantage of the IEA’s vinyl cutter to maintain an output of the paint-mask stencils that are more typical of my practice. It was an intensely productive week that will remain lodged in my consciousness.

Jeremy, four-color woodcut.

Finished eight-color woodcut with screen print.

Jeremy inking photogravure plate, I.

Jeremy inking photogravure plate, II.