Photo credit: Geren Heurtin
Jacklyn Brickman is a second year MFA student in the Art Department. Her work explores the realms of the environment, climate change, domestic labor, science fiction and speculative futures by engaging elements of installation, performance, and video with special interest in collaboration and interaction. Born in Michigan, Jacklyn graduated with a BFA (with honors) from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI (2005). She spent a semester abroad at Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, MX followed by a month of traveling via bus and hammock through southern Mexico (2003). She has been awarded Fellowships by the Jentel Foundation (2007), Popp’s Packing (via the National Endowment for the Arts and the Erb Family Foundation) (2016), Connecting Heritage Fellowship and Residency through the Maryland Milestones/ Anacostia Trails Heritage Area and the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center (2016), TechHub OSU Student Project Grant (2017), and National Academy of Sciences Sackler Student Symposium Fellow (2018). Brickman has Co-curated exhibitions at Butter Projects in Royal Oak, MI (2010-2013). Other endeavors that inform Brickman’s process include being a Realtor (2007), Volunteer Frog and Toad Surveyor (2010), Certified Babywearing Educator (2013-16), and Mother of 3 incredible humans (2008+). She has exhibited domestically, in Canada and Slovenia.
Current work:
The Doorway Effect is the experiential phenomenon of walking through doors and forgetting what one was doing. Walking Through Doorways Causes Forgetting was a site-specific installation that was part of a larger group exhibition of the same title in August of 2018. Located in a former school, built for children with Tuberculosis in the early 1900’s. The installation spanned the ceilings of two classrooms connected by a doorway, employing remnants from a retired hot air balloon that hung from the ceilings. The installation invited viewers to move through the space. Open windows allowed the wind to gently move the balloon throughout the room.