Meet the Artist:
AiB in Conversation with Jesus Benavente, Sara Jimenez, and Jasmine Murrell
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
This week we’re excited to feature three artists who embrace performance and the body from a global perspective: Jesus Benavente, Sara Jimenez, and Jasmine Murrell. AiB alums, Benavente, Jimenez, and Murrell have installed work in some of our more unique exhibition spaces, including the West 10th Window and Love Apple Art Space. All three artists bring their bodies into their practice, examining issues of race, colonialism, empathy, memory, and cultural traumas. Join us as we discuss their diverging approaches to these important issues, and how they respond to contemporary and historical events in their work.
Jesus Benavente is from San Antonio, TX and is a Spring 2020 Bemis Center Artist-in-Residence. He holds an MFA from Rutgers University, a BFA from The University of Texas, and has attended The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and Art Omi. His recent exhibitions and performances have occurred at The Whitney Museum of Art, Queens Museum, The Vera List Center for Art and Politics, Socrates Sculpture Park, LTD Los Angeles, among others. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Sara Jimenez is a Filipinx-Canadian interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Jimenez has exhibited at the Pinto Art Museum (Philippines), El Museo del Barrio, Rush Arts Gallery, BRIC Gallery, BronxArtSpace, FiveMyles Gallery, The Brooklyn Museum, The Bronx Museum, and Smack Mellon, among others. She has performed at venues including The Dedalus Foundation, The Noguchi Museum, Jack, The Glasshouse, and Dixon Place. She has been an artist in residence at Brooklyn Art Space (2014), Wave Hill’s Winter Workspace (2015), The Vermont Studio Center (2016), the Bronx Museum’s AIM program (2016), Yaddo (2018), BRICworkspace (2018), Art Omi (2019), Project for Empty Space (2019), LMCC’s Workspace (2019-2020) and Bemis (2020). She is the recipient of the Cecily Brown Fellowship and has been listed as Smack Mellon’s “Hot Picks” in both 2018 and 2019. Jimenez teaches at Parsons the New School for Design, New York University, BMCC, and mentors graduate students at the Vermont College of Fine Art and the School of Visual Arts.
Jasmine Murrell is a Brooklyn-based visual artist that employs several different mediums to create sculptures, painting, photography, performance, installations, and films that blur the line between history and mythology. Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally for the past decade, in venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Art and Bronx Museum, Museum Contemporary Art Chicago, Whitney Museum, African-American Museum of Art, and the International Museum of Photography and untraditional institutions. Works have been included in the book MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora and New York Times, Time, Hyperallergic, The Detroit Times and several other publications. Photo Credit: Argenis Appolinario.
Meet the Artist: AiB in Conversation is sponsored by the Time Equities Inc. (TEI) Art-in-Buildings. TEI is committed to enriching the experience of our properties through the Art-in-Buildings Program, an innovative approach that brings contemporary art by emerging and mid-career artists to non-traditional exhibition spaces in the interest of promoting artists, expanding the audience for art, and creating a more interesting environment for our building occupants, residents, and their guests.