Artist Talk & Open Studio at the Innovation Studio: JD Deardourff

In this conversation with JD Deardourff, Artist in Residence at the Innovation Studio, and MoCA Arlington Curator & Residency Program Manager, Amanda Jirón-Murphy, Deardourff will discuss his practice, and what he's working on during the 8-week residency.

Right now, I'm onto the newest phase of an ongoing series called Brain Vacation. These collages are colorful, abstract explorations of an imagined, psychic landscape. I think of them both as escape hatches to another dimension, and also, mementos from the trip.

Talk will begin at 2pm. Open Studio will continue after the talk, from 3-5pm.

Location:

MoCA Arlington Innovation Studio + Store: 525 14th Street S, Arlington, VA 22202
free parking available in the garage on weekends for up to 3 hours

To livestream the talk:
Tune in on Saturday, Jan. 31, at 2pm to either MoCA Arlington’s Facebook or YouTube page!

About the Artist

JD Deardourff is a Muralist, Screenprinter, Collage Artist. Employing innovative rhythms and his signature blazing palette, JD Deardourff creates bold, graphic, bittersweet compositions that riff on traditional genres of landscape, still-life, and portraiture.  His screenprints, murals, paintings, and collages draw their inspiration from the vocabulary of comic books: exaggeration, energy, movement, contour line, the interplay of sequential images, and, most importantly, artificial color. He combines these elements to form a world that is simultaneously optimistic and apocalyptic.

 www.deardourff.com | IG: @jddeardourff