Statement.
I have lived in many places. I have experienced many things. I am grounded by the earth, and by default, adaptability has become part of of my language. Resourceful by nature, I use what I have available to me as sources of materials to create emotional and seemingly unsettled structures. My process informs the capacity of the structures that I build and assemble. Like a person or a community, the works have limits. I’m interested in ways that I can work my structures to those limits in order to speak about capacity. At what point do we begin to question out strength as well as our weakness, and how can we find balance?
Expectation can be defined as a strong belief that something will happen or be the case in the future. Hope is complete faith - even if you do not know. I am interested in breaking down our expectations of home and using the structure of the house to define or un-define the ideals of home. It’s guidelines are not a means to build structure but to break down the existing ideal, and our expectations of home.
Jasmine Gonzalez studied sculpture and ceramics at the University of Hartford’s Hartford Art School in Connecticut. After completing her BFA in 2014 she became the first resident artist at Guilford Art Center in Guilford, CT where she worked as resident artist, studio assistant, and teacher before receiving her Masters at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 2020.