Exhibition Dates: January 21 – March 3, 2012
Opening Reception: First Friday Gallery Walk, February 3, 6-10pm

(Visual Art/ Art Installation)
Location: Artspace, Gallery 1

Jarod Charzewski’s site-specific installations examine landscapes and people, man-made structures among nature, and the sometimes static, often fluid designs that rise from dual environments.  What Land Will Take is constructed from several tons of borrowed garments (from local thrift stores) and reflects nature’s response to man and mankind’s impact on the land. The artist views his installations as a lens through which to see our world.

Charzewski grew up in the inner city of Winnipeg where the attitudes and esthetics of an urban setting took hold. He also spent time on a family farm in rural Manitoba. This combination of surroundings is where he gained appreciation for natural and manufactured landscapes. He fuels his art with visuals of seasons; Prairie landscapes and recreates aesthetics that investigate mankind’s evolving influence. Artistically he uses these sensations to release ethereality in site-specific experiences.

He holds a BFA from the University of Manitoba (1996) and an MFA from the University of Minnesota (2005). He has received artist grants from several US and Canadian arts organizations including the Manitoba Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts and in 2007 received a Puffin Award for the environmental content of his work. He has taught sculpture in his hometown of Winnipeg, Canada and Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN and he currently holds the position of Assistant Professor at the College of Charleston in Charleston South Carolina.

Image Information: Jarod Charzewski, What Land Will Take Cost: free