Join us in rich conversation with Houston-based artist and collaborator David Janesko. As the former curator of Flatland Gallery in Houston, he invited us in 2018 to present our work as Other Border Wall Project.  Speaking in February 2021 with Jenn and Leah (Tereneh was not on this call), we touched on many topics including art and mental illness and collaboration.  David Janesko is an artist exploring the emergence of complexity using an experimental approach that encompasses a wide array of mediums, technology and subject matter. He is specifically interested in the genesis of life, and death, from the early Earth, the emergence of the Self and how the senses and mental illness shape reality. David grew up in Western Pennsylvania and worked for a number of years as a geologist before attending the San Francisco Art Institute (MFA, 2013). From 2013 to 2015 David was a Graduate Fellow then Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Artist in Sausalito California, and the curator for Flatland Gallery in Houston from 2017 to 2019. David is represented in Houston by Gray Contemporary.  From 2019-2021 he was a Studio Artist in Residence at the Lawndale Arts Center in Houston, where he collaborated with the choreographer Jacqueline Boe on a series of work and explorations at the intersection of dance and art.  

www.janeskodavid.com

https://lawndaleartcenter.org/studio-artist/jacquelyne-boe-and-david-janesko/

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