Hello. I’m Jacquelyn Strycker, and I am excited to be participating in Wonder Women 9: Superfood!
About Me
I originally hail from Metuchen, New Jersey, and I currently dwell and have a studio in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. In between, I’ve lived and worked in Manhattan, San Francisco, Rome, Philadelphia and Jersey City. I have a BA in Visual Arts from Columbia University, an MFA from Tyler School of Art and have taught at Temple University, Columbia University and the School of Visual Arts, where I am also the Director of Operations for the MFA Art Practice program. I’ve done residencies at ArtPod Berlin, The Women’s Studio Workshop and the Vermont Studio Center, a fellowship with Createquity, and have received grants from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, FIGMENT, and the Action Arts League. I’m not a particularly fast runner, but I am proud to have run eight marathons and completed one triathlon. In my free time, I enjoy gardening, cooking, spinning, spontaneous kitchen dance parties, scrabble and karaoke.
About My Work
My background is in printmaking. I use the medium to create repetitive patterns, often derived from nature, that I then piece together to create large, wall-sized works, installations, or objects. I’m consciously borrowing from traditional craft — handicrafts, quilting, basket making, fabric weaving — and I’m interested in the synthesis of craft and home and life and art. More recently, my practice has also grown to include participatory projects often centered around food, drawing and games. These projects include Karaoke Truck, a box truck turned pop-up karaoke lounge featuring homemade videos, PROGI, an art-bingo-pierogi dinner series at the Polish National Catholic Church in Greenpoint and ZAZAZA, a Global Pizza Conference in Berlin, and seek to foster community while exploring notions of hospitality and exchange. You can view more of my work at strycker.net and contact me at thestrycker@gmail.com.
“Ebb and Flow”
Woodcut and Collage on Handmade Paper
“Philosophy on the Way to Ecology”
Installation
“PROGI”
Participants play PROGI Bingo at the PNCC
“PROGI”
Participants dish up homemade pierogi
“ZAZAZA”
Toppings at the ZAZAZA pizza conference
“ZAZAZA”
Still from a karaoke video created for the event
Proposal for WW9: MIXT TAPES | MIX TAPES
“Mixt Tapes” refers to the Catalan small plates, appetizers and snacks, while “Mix Tapes” are the compilation of songs recorded onto the now antiquated cassette tape format. “MIXT TAPES | MIX TAPES” will be a participatory event that includes homemade tapes of both sorts.
The project will bring together food and music, and culminate in the production of an artistbook /zine that includes images and recipes of the tapes overlaid with lyrics from songs used in the tapes.
