About Jim...

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. Additionally, he has performed in pieces at Emily Harvey Gallery, The SculptureCenter, Whitney Museum of American Art, and The Goldman 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. He has taught or currently teaches in: Umass, Lowell; The School of Education, New York University; The College of Liberal Arts, Drew University; and The Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Rutgers-Newark.
Jim resides mostly in Lowell, Massachusetts and works where he can.

Work Samples...

The Nexus of Things: An Artist Statement

As an intermedia artist I am interested in creating discreet objects, video, web art, and performance which formally engage at the nexus of digital and traditional media. These objects, moments and actions are sensory cultural artifacts relative and parallel, on occasion crossing, at other times pure fantasy to my lived experience; they are “Fantabiography,” the mixing of fantasy and biography, with the goal of disseminating a fabricated popular culture. And like culture my work is inspired and informed by psychology, geography, technology, history, family, experience and myriad other subsets of these; exemplified in the appropriation, assimilation, and reconstruction of recognizable artifacts into personal schemata, serial imagery, 3-dimensional objects, time-based photography/video and performance.

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