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Nadja Frank and Jomar Statkun
Nadja Frank and Jomar Statkun have been working on numerous collaborative projects together for the past few years. They have drawn from their individual practices to focus on where their work intersects and explores common themes. Scale and self-appropriation have been common threads that have fused, as well as caused necessary tensions, throughout the collaborative works. Whether inspired by natural environments or man-made structures, their works have explored and exploited physical landscapes, sound situations, art markets and the making and unmaking of the social structures that exist in the experiencing of “art”, both in a natural environment and a created gallery/art house setting.
Nadja Frank was born in Lohr am Main, Germany. She received her Diploma in Fine Arts with Honors from Hochschule fur bildende Künste in Hamburg, Germany in 2008. She has exhibited internationally in numerous solo exhibitions (401contemporary Berlin/London, Germany; Margini Arte Contemporanea, Massa, Italy; Galerie Conradi, Hamburg, Germany) and group exhibitions (Kunst Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany; Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany, Silvershed, New York). Her work operates on the edge between painting, sculpture and architectural environments. Her recent site-specific installations deal with transience, the process of making and unmaking, and the movement/evolution of color through space and time. Displacement of imagery and object has been an obsession throughout Frank’s work, finding tension and collision in the gaps between and natural and man-made worlds. She currently lives in New York.
Jomar Statkun was born in Freehold, NJ. He received his MFA at Boston University. There he received the Jack Kramer Award and the Esther B. and Albert S. Kahn Award. Most recently he was an Artist in Residence at Redgate Artist Residency in Beijing, China, the Gowanus Studio Space in Brooklyn, NY and the Short Term Residency Program at the PS122 gallery, NY. Jomar Statkun has exhibited internationally in numerous solo and group exhibitions and has works in many in private and public collections.
Statkun is interested in formal engagements with aesthetics. He is preoccupied with colonialism, transmigrant and immigrant culture and political activities and uses art as an encompassing foil, analogue and counterpart to discuss historical influences on a rage of socio-political attitudes and positions that are subtexts to a cultural discourse that subsumes them and hands them over to capitalism - what he considers a highly problematic neoliberal brand of capitalism. He currently lives in New York.
