Jacquelyn Strycker works across the boundaries of drawing, printmaking, and textiles, creating collages and soft sculptures. Drawing from source material suggestive of domestic interiors– vintage wallpapers, textile patterns, ornamental architectural detail, she uses a RISO duplicator to create patterns and symbols that are flipped, shifted, and reconfigured. The works, reminiscent of quilts, embody the pleasures of color, pattern, and craft while exploring concepts of home, play, reality, and authenticity.
Strycker uses print processes like risograph as a means of blurring the distinction between handmade, digital, and mechanical space, and plays with a sense of material transformation. Quilt squares and stitches are hand-drawn, printed in hyper-saturated and fluorescent colors on handmade papers and fabric, and then sewn and quilted. A textile becomes a drawing, becomes a print, becomes again, a textile. She enjoys the tension between the handmade and the machine-made, and the moments of glitch.
Jacquelyn Strycker is a Brooklyn/Queens-based artist working primarily in printmaking, collage and fibers-based media. She is concerned with the relationship between decoration and function, and invested in material exploration and handicraft. Strycker has a BA in Visual Arts from Columbia University and an MFA from Tyler School of Art. She is presently a visiting professor at Pratt Institute and a faculty member in the MFA Art Practice and BFA Fine Arts departments at the School of Visual Arts. Her work has recently been exhibited at Print Center New York; Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, NC; Kunstraum Gallery, Brooklyn; Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Solomons, MD; Peep Space, Tarrytown, NY; Collar Works, Troy, NY; and Piano Craft Gallery, Boston; She has participated in residencies at Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred, ArtPod Berlin, Gaia Studio, The Women’s Studio Workshop and the Vermont Studio Center. In 2023. She was a member of the inaugural cohort of the Print Center New York’s New Voices program, and an artist-in-residence at the Museum of Arts and Design.