Jacob C. Hammes, MFA 2015

Thesis Exhibition: March 11 – March 14, 2015

Opening Reception: March 13, 6 – 8:30 PM
Hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 11 AM – 6 PM


Still from Velo by Jacob C. Hammes

Still from Velo by Jacob C. Hammes

Still from Velo by Jacob C. Hammes

Velo (stills)
5 channel Digital Video, 2015


I am developing a practice that cuts across mediums as well as sites of interaction, aiming my curiosities towards a conceptual framework that investigates the intersections of power, identity, and inner psychic life.  My ambitions are to exhibit, perform, teach, curate, and write.  In these activities I find critical positions to challenge the structures that I participate in, both those I choose and those I was born into. My belief is that structures informed by race, gender, and class, including those of Whiteness, Masculinity, Liberalism, Capitalism, and wage labor, can be antagonized by formulating sensory experiences that are shared and within these disciplines can be transformative. I seek to understand the relationships between ideology and physiological experience for the purpose of reconciling limitations of self.

All images courtesy of the artist.