JACK HENRY: MODERN LANDSCAPE
Henry embeds sticks, chains, rocks and cigarette packets within cement to become their compositional elements. Leaves, rebar, cans and cables are cast out of resin and bronze to be assembled into sculptures. Found paper and cardboard is collaged together to create the ground for landscape drawings. He is interested in depicting the contradictions we face as an ecologically aware society functioning within a consumerist system.
Jack Henry’s practice explores the compromised state of the environment by focusing on the spaces of untamed growth remaining in the urban landscape - where mankind’s conquest of wilderness is most evident. He portrays environmental degradation by combining found objects with plants emblematic of the city. In his Brooklyn neighborhood, wild growth is confined to empty lots and gutter spaces where he collects material from to make sculpture, installations and works on paper reflecting the compromised state of the modern landscape. |
Jack Henry (b. 1984, based in Brooklyn, NY) earned his BFA in Sculpture at the Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL (2007) and MFA in Sculpture at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD (2010). He is the recipient of several fellowships and residencies, most notably at Mass Moca Residency (2020), Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada, Earthed – Ecology Themed Artists Residency Fellowship (2019), Arte_Fits.foundation, Dorado, Puerto Rico. Art in Nature Fellowship (2019), and Vermont Studio Center, Stowe, VT. August Fellowship (2017).