Jaime Carrejo:
Waiting
Located in the Lower Level
Located in the Lower Level
Located in the Lower Level
Jaime Carrejo: Waiting presents a new installation by the Denver-based artist that explores the relationship between confinement and duration. Through a layering of Southwestern symbolism, mid-century design, and objects from his own domestic space, Carrejo offers an environment reminiscent of an interior waiting room and exterior courtyard. These settings intend to prompt reflection on various physical and psychological barriers experienced during the pandemic but also pose the question of what will come after this extended period of waiting.
P.S. Jaime is one of the artists in our Octopus Initiative Program! Check out his art available in the library and make sure to enter the lottery for your chance to win and live with his work in your own home for 10 months!
Jaime Carrejo is a multi-disciplinary artist who creates painting, sculpture, video, and immersive installations. He uses pattern and color, sourced from plants, textiles, and the Southwestern landscape, to address a relationship between place and identity. He considers the layering of materials and imagery pivotal in exploring the collision of multi-hybrid identities and alterity that form complicated relationships.
Jaime Carrejo was born in 1977 in El Paso, Texas and currently lives and works in Denver. He received his BFA from the University of Texas, El Paso in 2001 and MFA from the University of South Florida in 2007. His work is featured in periodicals, such as The New York Times, Artforum, and Hyperallergic. His work has been featured at the Museum of Design Atlanta; Denver Art Museum; University of the Andes, Bogotá, Colombia; and Mahmoud Darwish Museum, Ramallah, Palestine. He held a residency at Redline Denver from 2011-2013 and currently serves on the board of Tilt West.
From the current exhibition, Jaime Carrejo’s: Waiting presents, Sunset and Twilight, 2020, wallpaper on exclusive and limited-edition clocks. Take a work of art home with you!
Courtesy the artist.