May 2019

JANE BRUCKER STUDIO

EXHIBITION IN GERMANY'S BLACK FOREST

In the exhibition, Harold and Traugott, artists Jane Brucker and Jörg Obergfell, together with their audience, are mapping a collective creative inheritance. The artist pair will first link actual drawings, maps, stories and objects from their opas with contemporary art presentation and sharing practices. Harold Hawkins' Tom Taylor’s House (1978) is an example of one of Brucker's grandfather's drawings that will be in the exhibition.

Obergfell and Brucker will also create a new arrangement of space inside KUNSTKULTUR Königsfeld—engaging the audience in a live curatorial performance. Attendees are invited to bring items such as paintings, decorative objects, vessels, claywork, wood items, bicycles and other works created by their relatives to KUNSTKULTUR Königsfeld. These objects are placed in an installation of modular platforms, which are open and ready displays. The installation of custom displays made by Brucker and Obergfell will elevate and activate this unique collection of individual and community-generated memories and artifacts.

THE EDWARD M. KENNEDY INSTITUTE
FOR THE UNITED STATES SENATE

Jane Brucker Studio is pleased to announce the artist’s invitation from The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate to create and exhibit a new work. Opening in June, the exhibition will be on view through March 2020 at their location on the University of Massachusetts  Boston campus. Brucker will be reuniting with Judson Studios to create a new work for the “A Seat at the Table” exhibition. “A Seat at the Table” is inspired by U.S. Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm’s words and work toward creating a more inclusive democracy. A group installation features chairs created by twenty different artists. Each artist has been assigned a different member of U.S. Congress and is prompted to explore how the member found his or her own seat at the table. As Brucker’s past hommages have focused primarily on personal or historical figures, the Institute’s commissioning of a work researching a contemporary figure has posed an interesting challenge. Stay tuned to find out who the Institute assigned to Brucker for this project.

"If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair."

- Shirley Chisholm

Above: Work-in-progress studio shots of select found materials part of the sculptural tribute to the Congress figure assigned to Brucker (LEFT: antique mirrors; RIGHT: piano keys).