August 27, 2017

Multidisciplinary artist Jake Vogds fabricates conceptual, toy-like objects and paintings that speak to his practice as both a pop-singer and performance artist. With most of his vocal inspiration coming from Black female artists, Vogds finds it essential to create physical works that call out and question the inherent appropriation laced within his voice. Microphones in object-drag as parrots sensualize this self-parody, using strategies of camp, humor, and accelerationism to dismantle systems of privilege within the pop-scene as well as the self. Stuffed-animal product-self-portraits mock and reveal the shape-shifting, mind-colonizing aspects of whiteness in hopes of trapping this trauma in surrealist riddles.

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Jake Vodgs