About this Event
Please join us in celebrating this "homecoming" for a native Baltimorean, MICA alum, and former MICA faculty! This is the final weekend to see the exhibition. See you there!
Jeremy Jirsa's intimate work explores themes of isolation, social anxiety, self-Medic*tion, and depression that stem from living with Tourette Syndrome.
This brand new body of work has been created in the year or so since Jeremy Jirsa moved to LA to teach at Otis College of Art and Design and represents a shift in direction of his work.
"My work while extremely personal hits on larger themes of self doubt, self depreciation, anxiety, social anxiety and the want to conceal an aspect of self," says Jirsa. "Post pandemic, with the rise of mental health awareness, its been amazing talking with people who view my work and seeing how the work can be used to open up a dialogue about mental health and how universal a subject that can feel so isolating has become." Jirsa continues to be a vocal mental health and suicide prevention advocate. [There is always help and you are not alone. Dial 988 if you're in crisis to talk to a trained counselor.]
Jeremy Jirsa was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1992. A graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Jeremy received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in General Fine Arts and a minor in Art History with the honors of Magna Cum Laude in 2014 and a Master of Arts in Teaching from MICA in 2015. In 2017 he received his Master of Fine Arts at The University of Pennsylvania, where he was also the recipient of the Christopher Lyons Memorial Grant Award for the class of 2017. His work has been exhibited across the United States as well as in Florence, Italy. Jeremy’s studio practice encompasses sculpture, painting, photography, performance and installation. A 2022 Bethesda painting prize finalist and Bethesda Young artist 2022 recipient.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Night Owl Gallery, 1735 Maryland Avenue, Baltimore, United States
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