Jesse Pasca
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Born: New York
Lives: NYC, The Hamptons, NY
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MA with Honors in Art Education, City College of New York, New York, N.Y.
BFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, N.Y.
Studied With:
Alice Aycock, Connie Beckley, Bruce Boice, Don Eddy, Andrew Ginzel, Michael Goldberg, Tobi Kahn, Donald Kuspit, Marilyn Minter, Faith Ringgold, Paul Ryan, Jeanne Siegel, Paul Waldman, Jackie Windsor, Jack Whitten, Jack Youngerman
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PERFORMANCES:
“Invitation” New York, NY During 1998
Periodic performances working with the homeless, students, tourists and residents. Participants received disposable cameras to photograph as they wished. Retrieved cameras at assigned times and places.
“Hello My Name is Jesse” October 1996
Month long performance in New York City, wearing a sign: “Hello my name is Jesse, it’s okay to talk to me.”
“Sit Down and Shut Up” School of Visual Arts, New York, NY March 14th 1989 Materials: Trash, trash can, sponges, soap, mop bucket, towels, baseball mitt, ball, dish-rag, seed, two boards, hammer, nails, poem, and a clean change of clothes.
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Nightingale Gallery, Water Mill, NY : “Beautiful Male Objects” June 2004
Hayground School Art Benefit- Lizanne Topps Gallery, June 2003 and June 2004
Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY: “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” March 2003
The Painting Center, “Repetition in Discourse” Curated by Phong Bui , New York, NY October 2001
Universal Concepts Unlimited, New York , NY: “Project Room” October 2001
Jamaica Center for the Arts: “Artexts”, Jamaica, NY April - June 2001
D.U.M.B.O. Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY October 1999
City College of New York, New York, NY: “Artist as Teacher” November 1997
S.Cono, Brooklyn, NY: “Works on Paper” Curated by Chris Martin, March 1998
S.V.A. Visual Arts Gallery, Curated by Tobi Kahn, New York, NY Feb.-March 1992
MOVIES:
“Boxer Series” paintings featured in Roberta- Moving Parts, LLC directed by Eric Mandelbaum. Feature Film given Official Selection at Sundance, 1999.
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Baird, Daniel. “Repetition in Discourse” (Catalogue) The Painting Center, New York October 2001
Kalm, James. “Repetition in Discourse” NY Arts Magazine November 2001
Skvirsky, Karina. “Artexts” (Catalogue) Jamaica Center for the Arts, New York, April 2001 Daniels, Jessica. Re: Performance, “Invitation” Popular Photography. Volume 63, No. 6. June 1999
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City College of the City of New York
Honors: Provost Award for Art, 1998
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Honors: Special Presidential Grant(2)
In Residence Grants (6)
Foundation Grants (2)
Special Awards by Faculty(5)
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The Six Billion Project may actually be the 6 1/2 billion project, which refers to the approximate number of people alive today, in January 2006. It may be the 7 or 8 billion project by the time it is finished. However, given the current direction and collective vision of world leadership- current projections beyond our almost 6 ½ billion people create an element of uncertainty. That uncertainty is represented by “x” . So when considering the scope of the project the more accurate title may be sixbillion(x) where x is either the whole number or fraction that as a multiplyer will reveal the population of the world at the date of completion.
I am interested in seeing the size and the nature of the differences our human family shares. This representation will be done with dots- a dot for dot relationship for each human being alive. Large enough generalizations will be used in acknowledging that many people will be born and will die in the span of this project's lifetime. However, the scope of humanity at any one time- at completion will be as accurately represented as possible. To see an installation of six or seven billion dots! For me this is an essential endeavor, to make these dots, to make the time and intention of this project visible. I am not interested in automating a production of six billion dots, but rather through community and intention reflect the oneness of human kind. By constructing this by hand we define the intention and make time a visual product and not just a rendering of a mouse click.
We've been conditioned to see ourselves as apart from a whole. A nice way to look at it is to compare the earth to a body. If you have a cut leg, you dress it and make sure it heals. If not It could become septic and kill you. It's ONE earth! Why are continents ignored? Why are some dismissed? The human currency is necessary for us to advance as a civilization.
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“Looking at Women” slide set written for the Museum of Modern Art Education Department, New York, January 2000
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