SOME OF ALL PARTS, a solo exhibition by Jackson Hunt
The College of Creative Studies Art Gallery is pleased to present SOME OF ALL PARTS, a solo exhibition by Jackson Hunt.
Sharp, decisive, irreversible: the sound of tearing paper ripples through temporal boundaries, accompanied by rough cuts and incisions that flatten into painted marks. This act becomes the opening note of a new oral history, transforming collage into an alternative form of preservation. Each tear, every slice, carries the weight of opacity and authorship simultaneously. By layering photographs from his family's archive and reiterating this act through reproduction, Jackson Hunt, a member of the Cherokee Nation and descendant of the Klamath and Modoc tribes, generates cycles of transformation. Each iteration of this methodological dispersal embodies the initial rupture while embracing chance operations, collapsing personal and historical time into cyclical storytelling. Hunt’s gestures position him as both interpreter and producer of generational narrative, where paintings textured with marks and surfaces act as orators. These marks speak through their materiality, carrying ancestral memory into contemporary intervention. The process builds stratified layers of mediated memory, each disruption, reproduction, and painted translation demanding a return to the moment of dissolution. This continual remaking defies singular, fixed histories, instead offering narratives of perpetual becoming.
To confront a family archive is to grapple with its absences. Engaging with Western systems of documentation, Hunt reveals the paradox of seeking history within structures that both exclude and define Indigenous presence. This contradiction demands new forms of testimony. Hunt transforms this paradox into methodology: genuine preservation manifests in moments of deliberate severance, where breaking archival bonds creates space for alternative forms of inherited representation. These interventions position painting as a necessary practice of counter-documentation, where paint operates as both medium and metaphor.
- Excerpt of exhibition text by Christine Dianne Guiyangco
Jackson Hunt (b. 1988) is a descendant of the Klamath and Modoc Tribes and the Cherokee Nation. He was a resident at the Vermont Studio Center and his work has been featured in New American Paintings. Hunt is a recipient of the 2024 In The Paint Artist Grant. He received his MFA from UC Irvine and is based in Los Angeles.
Christine Dianne Guiyangco’s practice collapses the distance between visual art and critical theory, using "words as characters and characters as words," in a quantum field where colonial violence reverberates across time. Through installations, performances, comics, videos, and writings, she deploys puns, punctuations, and punchlines not as markers of progress but as portals revealing history's accumulated wounds. In her current work as a Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature at UC Irvine, building on her MFA in Studio Art (UCI) and BA in Art (UCLA), Guiyangco practices translation as witness—developing a comic series that ruptures sequential form through joke structures where laughter might transmute into modes of attention.