ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Gear up, sit down, plug in.

This set of sculptures and participatory objects alternately extend and interrupt bodies, mangle perception and create a reality of delusional technologies. Fabricated out of PVC, acoustic foam, wood and paracord, interactive apparatus mediate experience through projection and sound. Humanoid sculptures add to a sense that minds and bodies have become strangers to one another, existing in different worlds yet occupying the same space. Playful, dark, engaging and alarming, this work teases the notion of mind-body separation, the anxiety of obsolescence and self as shadow. 

JIMMY JAMES CANALES

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Jimmy James Canales is a San Antonio-based artist working in sculpture and expanded media. Canales received his BFA from the Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston, and his MFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio. His work has been shown throughout the state of Texas as well as nationally, including Boston, MA; Los Angeles, CA; and Las Cruces, New Mexico. Canales is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, most notably the Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Award for Artists (2015), the Tanne Foundation Award (2016) and the Vermont Studio Center Artist Grant (2015). Recently he was selected for the 2018-2019 Blue Star Contemporary Berlin Residency Program at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE.  In addition, he works as a Lecturer in Studio Art: Expanded Media at Texas State University in San Marcos and Palo Alto College in San Antonio.

PRESS

Glasstire Top 5 in Texas https://glasstire.com/2018/10/25/top-five-october-25-2018-with-jimmy-james-canales/

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