Josh Jaloweic
Josh Jalowiec is a Dallas-based artist whose art reflects on historical narratives and the difficulties presented in the act of remembering. In 2016, he mounted his first solo exhibition, Mile Posts, at the Cudahy Historical Society in conjunction with Bay View Gallery Night in Milwaukee. The following year, his work was published in the scholarly journal Forces and he was invited to create a public mural at the Dallas Farmers Market. Jalowiec has presented his research at Collin College’s Interdisciplinary Research Conference and served as president of Collin College’s 3D Arts Club. He began gaining professional experience working as a lab technician in the ceramic and sculpture studios at Collin College where the cupola furnace he built in 2016 is still a core part of Collin’s foundry program. Community engagement and service are important components of Josh Jalowiec’s practice, volunteering to serve young people, the elderly, and persons with disabilities. Most recently, with support from the Southern Methodist University Board Fellows program, he serves on the board of the Achievement Center of Texas.
Artist Statement
The visual textures of my Midwestern roots continue to inform my work. My memory becomes a tool to reflect on the use and abuse of artifacts, the invisible labor of a working-class community and the accumulation of time on this place. These oil cans, for example, are indexical of family and neighbors who supplied the labor for the factories and shops which once dominated the landscape but now
are deserted or erased. Through a care for the handmade, my work inhabits the patinas and rusts of a diminishing manufacturing hub and the fragile surfaces of its precarious industrial vessels. While these pieces attempt to reflect, they are constantly failing: they are “of” a place but no longer “in” a place. The problematic memory holds them in flux: heavy machinery on the brink of collapse, a
furnace reduced to a flake of skin, an oil can now just a shell.
CV
Solo Exhibitions
2016 Mile Posts, Bay View Gallery Night at Cudahy Historical Society, Cudahy, WI
2019 Rag and Bone, Owen Arts Center, Dallas, TX
Juried and Group Exhibitions
2019 Experiencing Perspectives, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, Fort Worth, TX
2019 BFA Qualifying Exhibition, Pollock Gallery, Dallas, TX
2019 Professional Practice, Regent Properties, Plano, TX
2018 Experiencing Perspectives, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, Fort Worth, TX
2018 Collabo, SMU Doolin Gallery, Dallas, TX
2017 Humanity, Dallas Farmers Market, Dallas, TX
2016 Here Between There, Courtyard Theater Gallery, Plano, TX
2016 Ending Renaissance, Ten20 Gallery, Plano, TX
2016 Time Stamps, 500X project space, Dallas, TX
2015 Advanced Student Art Show , The ARTS Gallery, Collin College, Plano, TX
2015 5th Annual ArtSeen Frisco Studio Tour, Collin College, Frisco, Texas
2015 Beginning Student Art Show , The ARTS Gallery, Collin College, Plano, TX
2014 Advanced Student Art Show , The ARTS Gallery, Collin College, Plano, TX
2014 Sculptechular, Frisco Art Gallery, Frisco, TX
2014 Invitational Student Art Show , The ARTS Gallery, Collin College, Plano, TX
Public Art Projects + Commissions
2018 Regent Properties, Plano, TX
2017 Farmall Tractor and Tires, 16’ mural section at Dallas Farmer’s Market, Dallas, TX
2015 Crossing the Crevasse, signature sculpture for TEDx Plano, Plano, TX
2014 You Cannot Be Serious, Collin College, Plano, TX
Awards, Fellowships, Grants, + Residencies
2019 Mary Vernon Painting Prize
2019 Board Fellow, HEGI Career Center and Achievement Center of Texas, Garland, TX
2019 Division of Fine Arts Merit Scholarship
2018 Doolin Art Materials Award
2018 Jones/Zelle Travel Grant
2018 Thomas Downs Scholarship
2018 Renato Mazza Division of Fine Arts Merit Scholarship
2018 SMU Honor Transfer Scholarship
2014 Invitational Student Art Show merit scholarship, Collin College, Plano, TX
Collections
Regent Properties, Plano, TX
Lynd Corporate, Dallas, TX
Collin Higher Education Center, McKinney, TX
Martin Luther High School, Greendale, WI
Bibliography
2018 Guthrie, Mary, “Art Love: Julia and Josh Jalowiec Are Not Your Typical Undergraduate
Students,” Meadows News, April 2018.
2018 “Bull’s Machine Shop, McKinney, Texas,” Forces, annual literary journal of Collin College, 2018.
2017 “Arrangement,” Quest: An Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Journal, Vol. 1 Cover.
2017 Darrow, Heather, “Leap of Faith: Family Pours Future into Art” Allen Image, January 2017.
Republished in Collin College News, January 2017
http://www.collincollegenews.com/2017/01/15/leap-of-faith-family-pours-future-into-art/
Education
2019 BFA Southern Methodist University (December 2019)
2017 Studied Art, Graphic Design, and GIS, Collin College, Plano, TX
1998 Studied International Community Development, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, OK
Conferences, Lectures, Talks, + Workshops
2019 Bronze Casting Finishing Workshop, SMU Meadows School of the Arts
2017 Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Student Research Conference, presenter: “Creative
2016 Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Student Research Conference, panel/presenter: “Process &
Product: What It Takes To Make An Artist”
Other Professional Experience
2019 Lab Technician, Ceramics Studio, SMU Meadows, Dallas, TX (2019-present)
2019 Sculpture Assistant, Deborah Ballard Studio, Dallas, TX (2018-present)
2018 Gallery Assistant, Pollock Gallery, SMU Meadows, Dallas, TX (2018-present)
2018 Teaching Assistant-Drawing, SMU Meadows, Dallas, TX (Fall semester)
2017 Lab Assistant, Sculpture Studio, Collin College, Plano, TX (1 year)
2016 Juror, Texas Extension Education Association (TEEA) Cultural Arts competition, Plano, TX
2016 Lab Assistant, Ceramics Studio, Collin College, Plano TX (1 year)
Other Educational Experiences
2019 Annual Iron Pour, Mesalands Community College, Tucumcari, NM
2019 Board Fellows Program, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
2018 ICCCIA, International Cast Iron Art Conference, Scranton, PA
2018 Annual Iron Pour, Mesalands Community College, Tucumcari, NM
2017 Keen Foundry Invitational Symposium, Houston, TX
2017 Intern, Plano Arts Coalition, Plano, TX
2016 Annual Iron Pour, Mesalands Community College, Tucumcari, NM
2016 Intern, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
2015 ISC Conference (International Sculpture Center), Phoenix, AZ
2015 NCCCIAP National Cast Iron Art Conference, Sloss Furnaces, Birmingham, AL
2015 Annual Iron Pour, Mesalands Community College, Tucumcari, NM
2015 Texas Sculpture Symposium, Texas Tech, Lubbock, TX
2014 Keen Foundry Invitational Symposium, Houston, TX
Involvements and Community Service
2019 Board Member and Volunteer, Achievement Center of Texas
2018 Volunteer, SMU-IDEA Mentorship Program, Dallas, TX
2017 Donation, For the Love of Art Silent Auction, benefiting ArtCentre of Plano, Plano, TX
2016 Volunteer, Cancer Support Community of North Texas, Plano TX
2015 Donation, Empty Bowls, Dallas, TX
2014 Volunteer, Dayspring Assisted Living, teaching art to seniors, Plano, TX
Josh Jalowiec is a Dallas-based artist whose art reflects on historical narratives and the difficulties presented in the act of remembering. In 2016, he mounted his first solo exhibition, Mile Posts, at the Cudahy Historical Society in conjunction with Bay View Gallery Night in Milwaukee. The following year, his work was published in the scholarly journal Forces and he was invited to create a public mural at the Dallas Farmers Market. Jalowiec has presented his research at Collin College’s Interdisciplinary Research Conference and served as president of Collin College’s 3D Arts Club. He began gaining professional experience working as a lab technician in the ceramic and sculpture studios at Collin College where the cupola furnace he built in 2016 is still a core part of Collin’s foundry program. Community engagement and service are important components of Josh Jalowiec’s practice, volunteering to serve young people, the elderly, and persons with disabilities. Most recently, with support from the Southern Methodist University Board Fellows program, he serves on the board of the Achievement Center of Texas.
Artist Statement
The visual textures of my Midwestern roots continue to inform my work. My memory becomes a tool to reflect on the use and abuse of artifacts, the invisible labor of a working-class community and the accumulation of time on this place. These oil cans, for example, are indexical of family and neighbors who supplied the labor for the factories and shops which once dominated the landscape but now
are deserted or erased. Through a care for the handmade, my work inhabits the patinas and rusts of a diminishing manufacturing hub and the fragile surfaces of its precarious industrial vessels. While these pieces attempt to reflect, they are constantly failing: they are “of” a place but no longer “in” a place. The problematic memory holds them in flux: heavy machinery on the brink of collapse, a
furnace reduced to a flake of skin, an oil can now just a shell.
CV
Solo Exhibitions
2016 Mile Posts, Bay View Gallery Night at Cudahy Historical Society, Cudahy, WI
2019 Rag and Bone, Owen Arts Center, Dallas, TX
Juried and Group Exhibitions
2019 Experiencing Perspectives, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, Fort Worth, TX
2019 BFA Qualifying Exhibition, Pollock Gallery, Dallas, TX
2019 Professional Practice, Regent Properties, Plano, TX
2018 Experiencing Perspectives, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, Fort Worth, TX
2018 Collabo, SMU Doolin Gallery, Dallas, TX
2017 Humanity, Dallas Farmers Market, Dallas, TX
2016 Here Between There, Courtyard Theater Gallery, Plano, TX
2016 Ending Renaissance, Ten20 Gallery, Plano, TX
2016 Time Stamps, 500X project space, Dallas, TX
2015 Advanced Student Art Show , The ARTS Gallery, Collin College, Plano, TX
2015 5th Annual ArtSeen Frisco Studio Tour, Collin College, Frisco, Texas
2015 Beginning Student Art Show , The ARTS Gallery, Collin College, Plano, TX
2014 Advanced Student Art Show , The ARTS Gallery, Collin College, Plano, TX
2014 Sculptechular, Frisco Art Gallery, Frisco, TX
2014 Invitational Student Art Show , The ARTS Gallery, Collin College, Plano, TX
Public Art Projects + Commissions
2018 Regent Properties, Plano, TX
2017 Farmall Tractor and Tires, 16’ mural section at Dallas Farmer’s Market, Dallas, TX
2015 Crossing the Crevasse, signature sculpture for TEDx Plano, Plano, TX
2014 You Cannot Be Serious, Collin College, Plano, TX
Awards, Fellowships, Grants, + Residencies
2019 Mary Vernon Painting Prize
2019 Board Fellow, HEGI Career Center and Achievement Center of Texas, Garland, TX
2019 Division of Fine Arts Merit Scholarship
2018 Doolin Art Materials Award
2018 Jones/Zelle Travel Grant
2018 Thomas Downs Scholarship
2018 Renato Mazza Division of Fine Arts Merit Scholarship
2018 SMU Honor Transfer Scholarship
2014 Invitational Student Art Show merit scholarship, Collin College, Plano, TX
Collections
Regent Properties, Plano, TX
Lynd Corporate, Dallas, TX
Collin Higher Education Center, McKinney, TX
Martin Luther High School, Greendale, WI
Bibliography
2018 Guthrie, Mary, “Art Love: Julia and Josh Jalowiec Are Not Your Typical Undergraduate
Students,” Meadows News, April 2018.
2018 “Bull’s Machine Shop, McKinney, Texas,” Forces, annual literary journal of Collin College, 2018.
2017 “Arrangement,” Quest: An Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Journal, Vol. 1 Cover.
2017 Darrow, Heather, “Leap of Faith: Family Pours Future into Art” Allen Image, January 2017.
Republished in Collin College News, January 2017
http://www.collincollegenews.com/2017/01/15/leap-of-faith-family-pours-future-into-art/
Education
2019 BFA Southern Methodist University (December 2019)
2017 Studied Art, Graphic Design, and GIS, Collin College, Plano, TX
1998 Studied International Community Development, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, OK
Conferences, Lectures, Talks, + Workshops
2019 Bronze Casting Finishing Workshop, SMU Meadows School of the Arts
2017 Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Student Research Conference, presenter: “Creative
2016 Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Student Research Conference, panel/presenter: “Process &
Product: What It Takes To Make An Artist”
Other Professional Experience
2019 Lab Technician, Ceramics Studio, SMU Meadows, Dallas, TX (2019-present)
2019 Sculpture Assistant, Deborah Ballard Studio, Dallas, TX (2018-present)
2018 Gallery Assistant, Pollock Gallery, SMU Meadows, Dallas, TX (2018-present)
2018 Teaching Assistant-Drawing, SMU Meadows, Dallas, TX (Fall semester)
2017 Lab Assistant, Sculpture Studio, Collin College, Plano, TX (1 year)
2016 Juror, Texas Extension Education Association (TEEA) Cultural Arts competition, Plano, TX
2016 Lab Assistant, Ceramics Studio, Collin College, Plano TX (1 year)
Other Educational Experiences
2019 Annual Iron Pour, Mesalands Community College, Tucumcari, NM
2019 Board Fellows Program, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
2018 ICCCIA, International Cast Iron Art Conference, Scranton, PA
2018 Annual Iron Pour, Mesalands Community College, Tucumcari, NM
2017 Keen Foundry Invitational Symposium, Houston, TX
2017 Intern, Plano Arts Coalition, Plano, TX
2016 Annual Iron Pour, Mesalands Community College, Tucumcari, NM
2016 Intern, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
2015 ISC Conference (International Sculpture Center), Phoenix, AZ
2015 NCCCIAP National Cast Iron Art Conference, Sloss Furnaces, Birmingham, AL
2015 Annual Iron Pour, Mesalands Community College, Tucumcari, NM
2015 Texas Sculpture Symposium, Texas Tech, Lubbock, TX
2014 Keen Foundry Invitational Symposium, Houston, TX
Involvements and Community Service
2019 Board Member and Volunteer, Achievement Center of Texas
2018 Volunteer, SMU-IDEA Mentorship Program, Dallas, TX
2017 Donation, For the Love of Art Silent Auction, benefiting ArtCentre of Plano, Plano, TX
2016 Volunteer, Cancer Support Community of North Texas, Plano TX
2015 Donation, Empty Bowls, Dallas, TX
2014 Volunteer, Dayspring Assisted Living, teaching art to seniors, Plano, TX
