Jason Lujan | Expanded Dreaming
Jason Lujan | Expanded Dreaming
August 2 – September 14, 2024
Opening reception: Friday, August 2nd, 2024 from 5:00 – 9:00 pm
Artist Talk and Livestream: Saturday, August 3rd from 1:00 – 2:00 pm
Watch Livestream here
Expanded Dreaming features artwork that integrates Indigenous sensibilities in tandem with transnational experiences and aesthetics. Central to this exhibition is the notion of the travelling pilgrim, wandering mendicant, and the metaphor of open-air market as dominant aesthetic. In collecting goods and people from around the world, capitalism itself has the characteristics of an assemblage. Just as previous generations of Indigenous artists responded to the introduction of modern art making materials such as synthetic paint to record, recode, and reframe traditional ideas and put forth new ideas, the art in this exhibition emphasize transitive zones involving the processes of the unfamiliar becoming familiar, or the process of restoration becoming a creative endeavor.
Jason Lujan
Jason Lujan is originally from Marfa, Texas. As an artist, he creates tools for understanding and interpreting the processes by which different cultures approach each other as a result of travel and communication and are later homogenized. Largely integrating visual components rooted in North American and Asia, the work focuses on the possibilities and limitations of the exchanging of ideas, meanings, and values, questioning the concepts of authorship and authenticity.
“I am interested in interdisciplinary and trans-cultural crossovers between revitalization of historical methods, materials, and approaches combined with daily living in the present. Just as previous generations of Indigenous artists responded to the introduction of modern art making materials and methods to record, recode, and reframe traditional ideas and new ideas, my own works emphasize transitive zones involving the processes of the unfamiliar becoming familiar, or the unfamiliar being made familiar.”
Virtual Exhibition