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Jasmine Murrell in MoCaDa, Brooklyn

MurrelBeyondDirt2012

 

Jasmine Murrell
In group show ‘Being Here in Memory’, MoCaDa, Brooklyn, until July 10, 2016.

Beyond Dirt, 2012.

About:

Murrell manipulates and transforms iconic materials to create alternate forms, constructing new objects, spaces, and realities that reflect our phenomenal way of life. She reframes historic associations that we may have with materials and objects to revisit the past while re-inventing the present. Murrell’s work reminds us of the events and history behind us, as well as the unknowable future that lies ahead. Humanity is constantly shifting and transforming – creating, remembering, forgetting. While it is easily obscured by the commotion of our daily lives, we are all a part of a much larger narrative than what we can see, connected throughout space and time. “Some Impossibility Without a Name” discovers the indefinable, yet palpable, ways in which trauma manifests and dissolves itself in our memories and histories.

MurrellImmortalUterus2014

Immortal uterus, 2014.

MurrellIn order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn, 2013,

In-order-to-rise-from-its-own-ashes-a-Phoenix-first-must-burn-2013.

MurrellTo die and to grow again and to kick yo ass, 2015

To-die-and-to-grow-again-and-to-kick-yo-ass-2015.

MurrellTheBeginningandtheEnd2011

The beginning and the end, 2011.

Jasmine Murrell is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist. She received her BFA from the Parsons School of Design and her MFA from Hunter College. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally over the past decade in exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Bronx Museum of the Arts, African-American Museum of Art, Art Basel, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Jasmine’s work has also been published in the New York Times, Amsterdam News, NY1 News, and the Detroit News. She is also a member of the artist collective HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN?