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Jordan Vinyard:
Summary of A Few Volts

Artist Statement:
Technology Dislocates. It pops the pleasant seams and streamline fixtures of our existence and demands recalibration. Yet, it is a self imposed currency. We hypothesize, test, squeeze, and tether ourselves to our technologies, while counting on the flexibility and resilience of our steadfast meat machines to endure. We suppose we stare at screens too long, crane our necks to participate in nihilist devices, and laugh at our role as couch potatoes consuming as many ones and zeros as possible. My kinetic sculptures, installations, and performances satirically reflect this relationship and our primordial complacency as propinquent subjects among our gadgets. Consisting of works that subtly breathe, lethargically stare at screens, and act as a sardonic addendums to existence, the ultimate goal of Summary of a Few Volts is to place the viewer in a fixed dilemma. It is designed to distill our cultural fetishes with technology down to simple elements of imposed power. Volts prophesy. They have led societies forward with wavering switches and ever evolving prototypes. This exhibition will consist of works that oscillate that history. From weird amalgams that play with forceful filmatic propagandas, to strange kinetic works that drag us to a grotesque presence, each piece stages an absurd choreography comprised of works that perform cultural autopsy. Through largely rubber-necking sensibilities, Summary of a Few Volts, prods the finite balance between humanized restraint and mechanized power.

Biography:
By challenging society’s prolific button pushing tendencies, Jordan Vinyard’s kinetic sculptures, installations, and performances satirize the human body’s exchange with the alchemizing effects of technology. Since receiving her MFA from Florida State University, she has exhibited nationally and internationally including at the International Symposium of Electronic Arts in Dubai; The Czong Institute for Contemporary Art Museum, South Korea; The Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson, Arizona; Art Basel, Miami; The Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina, and many more. She has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Oklahoma Artist Fellowship Award, The United Arts of Florida Grant, The Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition Creative Projects Grant, and been nominated twice for the Joan Mitchell Award. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma and responsible for the university’s expanded media program including kinetics, bio art, installation, and performance. Additionally, she is the founder and director of Art Wrecker, an experimental space predicated on socially engaged and dialogical forms of art. 
Holistically, she is addicted to the mad-science of making.

Buckham Gallery is funded by the following organizations:
Generous support is provided by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. 

Our activities are sponsored in part by an award from the MICHIGAN COUNCIL FOR ARTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS  and the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS. 
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This program is sponsored by the Greater Flint Arts Council Share Art Genesee Grant Program made possible by the Genesee County Arts Education and Cultural Millage funds. Your tax dollars are at work!
  • Home
  • Exhibitions
    • Late Winter Exhibitions >
      • Chad Erpelding: Gains and Losses
      • Deepanjan Mukhopadhyay: Appropriated Figure-Grounds
      • Jordan Vinyard: Summary of A Few Volts
    • Exhibition Opportunities >
      • 2022-2023 Season Call For Entry
      • PRESENTATION GUIDELINES
    • 2020-2022 Exhibition Schedule
    • Selected Past Exhibitions >
      • JANUARY 2021 >
        • Karen Milito
        • Nancy Pennell
        • Linda Lou Woodruff
      • December 2020: United By One >
        • United By One: Allen
        • United By One: LaBret Einstein
        • United By One: Haylett
        • United By One: Hershman
      • November 2020: BAC Exhibitions >
        • A Climate Of Change: Viewing Room
        • Shadows: 2020 Buckham Print Exchange
      • October 2020: Serious Play >
        • Serious Play: Andy Hill
        • Serious Play: Timothy Kranz
        • Serious Play: Sifus J Thompson
      • September 2020: Dear Memory, >
        • Aj Cooke: Fragmented Place
        • Michele Leclaire
        • Lauren Scavo-Fulk
      • August 2020: Ineffable Benedictions >
        • Matthew Osmon: Private Insurrection
        • 0591: People First
        • Rachel Singel: Metamorphosis
      • July 2020: Verisimilitude
      • Feb. 2020: Eros and Thanatos >
        • Eros & Thanatos: Award Winners
      • Jan. 2020
      • November 2019 Exhibitions
      • Oct.2019 FEVER VESSELS >
        • Press Release: Fever Vessels
      • FIELD WORK: Sept. 2019
      • BIG CLAY - August 2019
      • Crush: July 2019
      • April 2019: Allegories to Anatomies
  • Events
    • Calendar
    • In Conversation
    • First Friday Open Mic
    • Second Friday Art Walk
    • Cider & Slides
    • Past Artist Talks >
      • Jan. 10, 2020: Artist Talks with Ardea Thurston-Shaine and Dominique Chastenet de Gary
      • Tommy Mintz, Nov. 2019
      • 2019 Smallidge Lecture
      • June 2019: Panel Discussion with John Dempsey, Guy Adamec, and my Gibas
      • May 2019: Terre Voce
      • April 13, 2019 ​Artist Talk and Deviant Life Drawing Session with Jeanine LeclaireNew Page
      • May 4, 2019- Artist Talk with Stephen Halko and Nick Reszetar
  • On Screen - Flint
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      • Founders Feature: Sam Morello
      • Founders Feature: Ken Kinyon
      • Founders Feature: John Dempsey
      • FOUNDERS FEATURE: GUY ADAMEC
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