Jamora Lookbook

ROBERTO JAMORA

Front and Back Cover Image: Laurie Fisher, Float 2 , 2020, Oil on canvas, 36 x 36 inches

ROBERTO JAMORA

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Origin Story (Mom), 2019 Oil and beeswax on canvas over panel 60 x 48 inches $10,000 4

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Vitae, 2015 Oil and beeswax on canvas 56 x 42 inches $9000 6

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An Astronaut and John (In Conversation with David Anaya Maya), 2018 Oil and beeswax on canvas over panel 44 x 36 inches $8000 8

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Daydreams of the Philippines and Queens, 2020 Acrylic and pumice medium on canvas over panel 44 x 36 inches $8000 10

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Freedom, 2018 Oil and beeswax on canvas over panel 44 x 36 inches $8000 12

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Honeymoon, 2020 Acrylic and pumice medium on canvas 44 x 36 inches $8000 14

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Joan Carries All of This at the Women’s March (In Conversation with Joan Ariete), 2018 Oil and beeswax on canvas 44 x 36 inches $8000 16

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Paths Cross (North End), 2019 Oil and beeswax on canvas over panel 44 x 36 inches $8000 18

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Rituals (In Conversation with Diego Anaya), 2018 Oil and beeswax on canvas over panel 44 x 36 inches $8000 20

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Some Lines Divide People for 5-10 Generations (In Conversation with Alicja Gaskon), 2018 Oil and beeswax on canvas 44 x 36 inches $8000 22

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The Frogs Sing Differently Depending on the Season (In Conversation with Sophia Chizuco), 2018 Oil and beeswax on canvas over panel 44 x 36 inches $8000 24

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The Jamora Archipelago, 2019 Oil and beeswax on canvas over panel 44 x 36 inches $8000 26

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The Scorched Earth of Pampanga and Las Vegas (In Conversation with Jevijoe Vitug), 2018 Oil and beeswax on canvas 44 x 36 inches $8000 28

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True Brothers, 2019 Oil and beeswax on canvas over panel 44 x 36 inches $8000 30

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And then there was three…, 2017 Oil and beeswax on canvas 32 x 41 inches $7000 32

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ROBERTO JAMORA ARTIST STATEMENT In my series titled An Inventory of Traces, each gradient is a vignette of an experience, place, or person. I attempt to commit important events in my life to memory via painting.

I mine color from memory, photos, interviews, and artifacts from my family. Paint mixed with either cold wax or pumice medium is swiped across the canvas to conceal extraneous possibilities and to limit sentimentality. Simultaneously, illusionistic space is anticipated and denied. A thin trace of color is revealed. Skin tones, a day at the beach, hiking up a mystical mountain in the Philippines, my parents’ backyard, a city sidewalk, aging postcards from my uncle to my grandparents dating back to the 1970s, the bayous in Louisiana where my ancestors lived, the shapes of rivers, moving back to Virginia. Color triggers these recollections.

The Inventory is a collection of color studies based on experiences that have shaped my life. Lines, likeness, and edges are absent but the pigments remain. Movement and flow within the compositions connote time. I approach this ongoing series like a sentimental hoarder of memories. Each gradient and incision are both spectacular and everyday, familiar and distant. The paintings are quiet provocations, asking the viewer to reflect on the meanings and power of color.

ROBERTO JAMORA

Lives and works in Richmond, VA Education 2013 MFA, Visual Arts, State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, NY 2009 BFA, Painting and Printmaking, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA Select Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions 2020 Where were we?, FLXST Contemporary, Chicago, IL 2019 An Inventory of Traces, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA 2018 Home Field Advantage, Sandler Center for the Performing Arts Gallery, Virginia Beach, VA 2018 Marks and Conversations, Topaz Arts, Queens, NY (two-person exhibition

with Maeve D’arcy) 2018 Salon Saturday, Norte Maar, Brooklyn, NY 2017 Visitor, Shockoe Artspace, Richmond, VA 2009 Postcolonial Power Hour, VCU Commons Gallery, Richmond, VA (two person exhibition with Chino Amobi) Richmond, VA Select Group Exhibitions 2022 Shelter, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA 2021 Good Will, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA 2021 Down the Line, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA 2021 Embrace (curated by Deanna Evans), Maake Projects, State College, PA 2021 Poets, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA 2021 Sentiment, SFA Projects, New York, NY 2021 Genesis, Eden Airlines, Richmond, VA 2020 Glean, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA 2020 Index, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA 2020 New Waves 2020, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA 2020 Reaching for the Horizon, Antenna, New Orleans, LA 2019 Confluence of Colors, Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York, NY 2019 Current Art Fair, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA 2019 All We Want Is to See Ourselves, FLXST Contemporary, Chicago, IL 2019 New Editions: Into the FLXST, FLXST Contemporary, Chicago, IL 2019 Cut: Abstraction in the United States from the 1970s to the Present, The

Phillip and Patricia Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL

2019 Taglish, The First Picture of You, 1990, Philippine Center, New York, NY 2018 Gather, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA 2018 Constructing the Break, Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 2018 HOT! HOT! HOT!, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA 2018 Everybody in the Pool, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA 2018 Fool, Juice Box, Denver, CO 2017 Current Art Fair, Shockoe Artspace, Richmond, VA 2016 From Tha Roota To Tha Toota, Good Enough Gallery, Atlanta, GA 2016 daydreamer II, Quality Gallery, Oakland, CA 2016 Obstructed Views, Scott Charmin Gallery, Houston, TX (curatorial project) 2016 The Heart of the Matter, The Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelly Foundation, Chicago, IL 2015 SHIM Invitational 1, ArtHelix, Brooklyn, NY 2015 Daang-Krus, Bliss on Bliss Art Projects, Queens, NY 2015 SIXTY MINUTES: Sixty Artists & Sixty Seconds of Video, Vanity Projects,

Miami, FL & New York, NY 2015 Surface Matters, Fouladi Projects, San Francisco, CA 2015 Working Artist, Academic Gallery, Queens, NY 2014 FRESH PUNCH, Era VI VII VI, Queens, NY 2014 Hrönir: Un-Lost Things, Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn, NY 2014 Precious Moments, Open Space, Baltimore, MD 2014 Appalach-wick (collaboration with Adam Brazil), Art Helix, Brooklyn, NY 2014 Chronicle, Scott Charmin Gallery, Houston, TX 2014 Fade and Spill Out and Peer at Another’s Whole, FJORD, Philadelphia, PA 2013 FRESH 10, OUTLET Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY 2013 MFA Thesis Group Exhibition, Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY 2013 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery, Purchase, NY 2013 Six Degrees of Separation, The Bishop, Brooklyn, NY 2013 IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING, American University-Katzen Center for the Arts, Washington DC 2012 Divining Rod, Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery, Purchase, NY 2011 Make the Road by Walking, Passage Gallery, Purchase, NY 2011 Mahal, Yactac Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada 2011 Blueprints, Gitana Rosa Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2010 AND BEYOND, Parse Gallery, New Orleans, LA 2010 Nasaan?, Ishmael Bernal Gallery, Quezon City, Philippines 2010 Storm, Submerged Art Gallery, Newark, NJ 2010 Overstimulated, 210 Front St., South Street Seaport, New York, NY 2010 It’s Personal, St. Joseph’s College Alumni Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

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Stimulus Package, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA

Grants & Awards 2021 Asian Centennial Distinguished Fine Arts Fellow, William & Mary 2020 New Waves 2020 Honorable Mention, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art 2020 Guest Lecturer, William & Mary, Asian & Pacific Islander American Studies 2020 Art Awards Juror (Painting), Scholastic Art & Writing Awards 2019 November All Media Show Juror, Art Works, Richmond, VA 2018 New York Emerging Artist Grant Nomination, Rema Hort Mann Foundation 2018 Artist Community Engagement Grant, Rema Hort Mann Foundation 2017 New York Emerging Artist Grant Nomination, Rema Hort Mann Foundation 2014 New York Emerging Artist Grant Nomination, Rema Hort Mann Foundation 2012 Minority Graduate Fellowship, State University of New York at Purchase 2012 SUNY Graduate Fellowship, State University of New York at Purchase 2011 Merit Scholarship, State University of New York at Purchase 2008 Bon Air Artists Association Scholarship, VCU School Related Professional Experience 2021-Present Assistant Professor + Area Head, Surface Research (2D Foundations)

Virginia Commonwealth University, School of the Arts, Art Foundation Program 2021-Present Adjunct Lecturer, Filipino Diaspora Studies, William & Mary, Asian & Pacific Islander American Studies 2021 Adjunct Instructor, 2-D Portfolio Development, Virginia Commonwealth

University, School of the Arts, Pre-College Summer Intensive Program 2018-2021 Adjunct Instructor, Drawing Studio, Virginia Commonwealth University, School

of the Arts, Art Foundation Program 2015 Instructor, Perspective Drawing and Printmaking, State University of New

York at Purchase, Youth and Pre-College Programs in the Arts 2014-2015 Emerging Artist-Teacher Fellow, Joan Mitchell Foundation 2011-2013 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Foundation Drawing and Introduction to Drawing

State University of New York at Purchase, School of Art+Design Select Collections Atlanta Hawks NBA Team, Atlanta, GA Capital One Art Collection, Richmond, VA Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA Taller de Experimentación Plástica - Conarte, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

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