The Ohio Artist Registry (OAR) is an exciting opportunity for artists to share their work, connect with the creative community, and establish an online presence—all on a free, virtual platform! The OAR encourages artists working in all art forms, throughout Ohio and beyond, to create a profile, which allows them to better promote themselves and their work. Being listed in the OAR provides artists with new opportunities to share their work with clients, galleries, patrons, and audiences. A listing in the OAR does not confer an endorsement, approval, or verification by the Ohio Arts Council.
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Jeshua Schuster
Bio
Born in Toledo, Ohio
Educated in Memphis, TN and Cincinnati, OH
Based in Cincinnati, OH
Artist Statement
My work sustains tension between multiple modes of image-making, incorporating painting, drawing, 3D fabrication, ceramics and sculpture. I am concerned with the transmission of information, translation, miscommunication and history within contexts of war and paranoia. My current body of work focuses on decoy duck ponds as portals to understand contemporary structures of entrapment and deception, and the feeling of defenselessness, futility, and victimization. What can we learn by meditating on moments of capture, evasion and surrender? How is transformation and liberation possible in a time when stable narratives seem to be collapsing around us? Through installation I hope to contemplate the traps we may find ourselves in, the care with which we might navigate these snares, and the collective effort it will require to dismantle them.
