American artist Jackie Lima have been to India a few times, meeting and working with Indian artists, residencies and exhibitions. Her grandparents were world travelers. They traveled on Cargo ships that stopped in many ports. Jackie had the (colonial) names of Indian coastal cities imbedded in her brain with slide shows to accompany each one. Following the art opportunities, Jackie have been to each of those cities and experienced them in her own way…through Art. She felt a different India when she visited india again 50 years later.
About her works
Her work is informed by the experience
of Space. That experience is Omnipresent. Looking at and thinking about it in
different ways has led me to finding forms for painting that can address the
flattening of space on a 2-Dimensional surface, and the wrapping of it onto a
3-Dimensional surface, as well as works that imply the 4th Dimension. Since
Jackie is visually discussing the space she is looking at and standing in, her
SELF in the space is included or implied by the process.
About her current art works.
She said that her ancestral family
arrived in the New World from England through Leiden, Holland, in the 17th CE.
She is working on an Interactive piece about this right now. This piece depicts
her family homestead in New York State and discusses America’s Welcome of
people from all parts of the world to come here and participate in the Great
American Experiment. Others will share their family stories as well, completing
the piece.
She feel as though Democracy, Freedom
and Rule of Law -the right of equal access to justice for all – were born in
her own Heart.
