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“The love of the beauty of the world … involves … the love of all the truly precious things that bad fortune can destroy. The truly precious things are those forming ladders reaching toward the beauty of the world, openings onto it.”
-Simone Weil in Waiting for God, as quoted in Elaine Scarry’s On Beauty: And Being Just.
Olmedo’s practice follows a pulse entangled in beads, string and stones to unearth emotionally tense depictions of humanness. Beauty is ferociously pursued through laborious textile making practices and allowed to soak in the soul of its maker. The fragile human body glitters and drapes across a gaping wound. Locks of the artist's dark brown hair curl and cling to a metal fence, still flowing in the wind, despite their severance from the precious head that grew them. A backdrop of rubble and rebar cannot dim beauty, softness only underscores life.
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Jacob Olmedo (born Sheboygan, WI) is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY.
At TEMPEST, we want to talk about art in a maelstrom. We invite artists to be unafraid to broach difficult conversations and address colonial structures of violence through their practice in textiles, sculpture and installation. Our main desire is that each monthly show present layered themes where multiple cultural references intersect and tussle. Launched in 2024, TEMPEST Gallery is nestled in the culturally rich border of Ridgewood and Bushwick. Through our programming and events, we aim to create community and a space for gathering, presenting work and building relationships in Ridgewood Queens.
TEMPEST
1642 Weirfield St.
Ridgewood Queens, NY 11385
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