Jacquelyne Boe & David Janesko, Gerardo Rosales, and Holly Veselka Mine the Gap
Mine the Gap presents new work by Jacquelyne Boe and David Janesko, Gerardo Rosales, and Holly Veselka, created during their 2019/21 Artist Studio Program residencies at Lawndale. Through disparate mediums and for different ends, the artists collectively harness the quiet yet potent power of abstraction, layering, and transference in their experimentations with expression. The gap between reality and the represented offers fertile ground to mine the fleeting, fragmentary, and fragile. Reducing the legibility of referents limits obvious and immediate readings of the artists’ work, instead encouraging close viewing and a multiplicity of meanings. About the Artist Studio Program The nine-month Artist Studio Program supports three artists annually with an honorarium, project grant, studio space, and curatorial support, culminating with an exhibition of the artists’ new works. Special thanks to Andrea Allen, installers Jonathan Clark and David Cobb, and Lawndale volunteers Nadia Al-Khalifa, Karen Eisele, Jeanne Jones, Cindee Travis Klement, Erica Lee, Stefania Lenna, Ellie Mix, Francesca Paradiso, Ellen Ray, Niman Rosales, Jose Gregorio Saldivia, Juan Sanchez, Verny Sanchez, and Linda Wu for their assistance in the production of Gerardo Rosales' mural, The Banquet. Live Sculpture Activation Presented by 2019/21 Artist Studio Program collaborators Jacquelyne Boe and David Janesko John M. O’Quinn Gallery Friday, March 26 at 6:30 PM Saturday, March 27 at 6:30 PM 2
Jacquelyne Boe is a Houston based professional dancer, choreographer, and educator interested in collaboration and experimentation. A graduate of the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, she received a BFA from the University of Oklahoma, where she graduated as the Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts, Graduate of the Year. Boe has worked with organizations and individual artist such as Erick Hawkins Dance, Erin Reck, Frame Dance, Hopestone Dance, Houston Grand Opera, Open Dance Project, Noble Motion Dance, Sean Curran, Teresa Chapman, and Rob Ashford. Boe is a critically acclaimed dance maker that has been creating original works since 2014. She was named Houston Press’ 100 Creatives, a recipient of Dance Source Houston’s Artist in Residence Program, and is a founding member of a choreographers collective; Perspective Exchange. David Janesko is an artist exploring the emergence of complexity using an experimental approach that encompasses a wide array of mediums, technology and subject matter. He is specifically interested in the genesis of life, and death, from the early Earth, the emergence of the Self and how the senses and mental illness shape reality. David grew up in Western Pennsylvania and worked for a number of years as a geologist before attending the San Francisco Art Institute (MFA, 2013). From 2013 to 2015 David was a Graduate Fellow then Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Artist in Sausalito California, and the curator for Flatland Gallery in Houston from 2017 to 2019. David is represented in Houston by Gray Contemporary.