Jade Walker
The Pylon Project
February – June, 2021
NOT by Jade Walker
Big Medium and Central Austin Management are pleased to announce the Pylon Project, an intervention of the pylon sign outside of Canopy by one resident artist every 6 months.
Kevin Muñoz was the first Canopy artist to intervene the Pylon Project from June – December, 2020.
Jade Walker is a sculptor who engages with the temporalities of the body through abstraction, narrative, found objects, and desire. Her installations and sculptures often move between attraction and discomfort, encouraging the viewer to feel a conflict between wanting to touch them and wanting to move away. Most recently, she has been working on installations that engage with the body’s ways of healing, both individually and as a culture. Walker received her BFA from The University of Florida and her MFA from The University of Texas at Austin. Her work has been included in solo exhibitions at the Austin Museum of Art (now The Contemporary Austin), Blue Star Contemporary Arts (San Antonio, TX), Dimension Gallery (Austin, TX), Lawndale Art Center (Houston, TX), The Museum of Pocket Art (Austin, TX and travelling), and the University Art Galleries at Texas State University (San Marcos, TX). She completed an artist residency and site-specific installation at Facebook, in their Austin, TX offices in 2020. In 2021, she will create two public arts projects including one for the City of Austin and another for Big Medium at Canopy. You can also find her work as part of the Bartlett Project curated by Leslie Moody Castro and ICOSA and in solo exhibitions at the Elisabet Ney Museum (Austin, TX) and Women & Their Work (Austin, TX). Walker lives in Austin, TX.
Portrait of Jade walker, photo by Eric Manche.