Jacqueline Forest Andrews is a visual artist based in Los Angeles, California who works primarily in two-dimensional media including painting, drawing, printmaking, and analog photography. Jacqueline’s work is mostly inspired by her community. She believes that critical ideas in fine art should be presented with as much physical and intellectual accessibility as possible to the public. Her work is a means of facilitating connection in her relationships by including others in her drawing and painting processes. She also explores experimental approaches to portraiture to further reflect on her relationships. Jacqueline’s work is heavily influenced by her education in classical painting, which she has studied at California College of the Arts, UCLA, Rhode Island School of Design, Studio Art College International, and USC. Jacqueline will graduate with a Bachelor’s in fine arts and a minor in psychology from the University of Southern California in 2021.
“Self-Portrait” explores ideas of intimacy and memory through portraiture and collage techniques. Self-Portrait (Quilt) is a patchwork quilt combining many separate paintings of familial eyes. As a quilt, it brings the comfort and warmth of home, while evoking the history of community-building behind American quilt-making. As a functional object, the quilt literally keeps me warm while I sleep, comforted by the eyes of my community. The quilt remains in my home to preserve its intimacy and privacy. Instead, I brought the quilt’s documentation to the gallery: a photographic self-portrait under the quilt in my bedroom, and a large painting made of the residue generated when I originally painted on the quilt. Residual Quilt is a collage of residual paintings gathered as color bled through the quilt fabric as I painted it. Tying my section of the gallery to my bedroom highlights the themes of home, intimacy, and community.
