Jacolby Satterwhite Artist Talk

Jacolby Satterwhite is an artist who works with video, performance, 3D animation, fibers, drawing and printmaking, currently based in New York City. Satterwhite's work in dance performance draws from voguing, martial arts, and choreographer William Forsythe's dance techniques. His work often utizilizes his mother's schematic drawings/inventions of ordinary objects influenced by consumer culture, medicine, fashion, Surrealism, mathematics, sex, philosophy, astrology, and Matrilineal concerns. His series Reifying Desire was featured in the 2014 Whitney Biennial and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Combining 3D animation and live action, the work explores themes of memory and personal history in a virtual dreamlike environment. Satterwhite has also shown/performed in group exhibitions including MoMA PS1, The Smithsonian, The Kitchen, Rush Arts Gallery, and Exit Art. 

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