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JIM JEFFERS OFFICIAL BIO |
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Jim Jeffers,
artist |
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| Jim Jeffers is an intermedia artist working with computer mediation, performance, photography and video in conjunction with conventional media. He is currently working at the nexus of fantasy and biography (Fantabiography) fabricating a personal popular culture. Jeffers likes superheros, volkswagens, legos and television. He attended the University of California-Santa Cruz, where he received his BA in Art (printmaking and drawing). Subsequently, he studied at NYU, where he received a Master of Arts degree in Studio Art (sculpture and printmaking). Jeffers spent time becoming a better person, cooking for his mother, and making objects in his garage in Encinitas, California. In 2000 he earned his MFA at Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, where he taught Introduction to Computer Animation, Introduction to Computer Art and Art Making-Performance. He was the co-founder of C.R.A.P. (The Conscious Refuse Adoption Project), with Scott Heath (NYC, 1994-96). He has exhibited and performed his work in the United States and internationally. Most notably at: The Rosenburg Gallery, New York, NY, The Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ; Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ; The Patricia Doran Graduate Gallery, Boston, MA; Market House Gallery, Providence, RI; Druckwerkstatt Bethanien, Berlin, Germany; Dreamcatcher Film and Video Festival, Kiev, Ukraine; and The New York Water Front Festival, New York, NY; and 2005 solo exhibitions: "Sol Omnibus Lucet (the sun shines upon us all)" at The Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA; and "Short Trips" at The Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ. Additionally, he has performed in pieces at Emily Harvey Gallery, The SculptureCenter, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Goldman Gallery, and Vlepo Gallery. Jeffers curated Kaboom! an exhibition for the Korn Gallery, Madison, NJ, was a curator-at-large and a panel moderator for The Y2K Solution: Creative Moves into the 21st Century at The Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers University, and co-curator of Sixteen Days in September: Making our Faculty’s Privates Public also at The Mason Gross Galleries. Jim is a member of SIGGRAPH of the Association for Computing Machinery, and a founding member of The New Media Caucus of the College Art Association. He has taught at: The School of Education, New York University; The College of Liberal Arts, Drew University; and The Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Rutgers-Newark, just to name a few. Jim is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, teaching Web Art and Design. Jim resides mostly in Lowell, Massachusetts, has a studio in Brooklyn, New York and works where he can. |
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