Artist Bio
Jasmine Chock is a Chinese American artist based in Austin, TX. Chock works in a wide range of 3D materials, photography and video, including, but not limited to, sewing, ceramics, noodles, and plastic bags. In making art, she playfully explores the relationships between humans and the public, private and personal objects and spaces they interact with. Chock takes inspiration from observing everyday routines and traditions and subverts their usual purposes, creating humorous, uncanny relationships.
Chock graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art. She has shown work at the City of Austin Asian American Resource Center, The Museum of Human Achievement and the Visual Arts Center. She is an artist educator and administrator. She has facilitated art-making workshops for youth, seniors, and adults of all abilities in Austin, TX, with printmaking, clay, paper mache, and fiber arts.
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Artist Statement
I explore the relationships between humans and the public, private and personal spaces and objects they interact with. I take inspiration from observing everyday routines and traditions. In my work, I create a humorous, uncanny intimacy through a nonsensical juxtaposition of objects and environments that subverts their usual purposes. I make sculpture with a unique variety of mediums and found objects, and I employ photography and video to document performative interactions with the objects and environments I create.
I am interested in creating these strange relationships as a way to explore the sense of belonging and comfort humans innately search for in their everyday lives. Asking the viewer, “what does it mean to belong, to feel comfort and to experience joy?” My work provides humorous, yet sometimes unrealistic, solutions for finding these attributes.
