For Immediate Release: March 9, 2015

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Terms & Conditions*

Jason Hughes

March 26 – April 25, 2015

In collaboration with the UMBC Intermedia + Digital Arts MFA program and The Bromo Arts & Entertainment District

Jordan Faye Contemporary & Thrive are thrilled to present Baltimore-based artist Jason Hughes’ exhibition Terms & Conditions as part of the Intermedia + Digital Arts MFA Thesis Program at UMBC. This exhibition at JFC is one of three that are collectively happening in a larger scope entitled, Incidental Matters. We are excited to be collaborating with MAP, Current, and the Bromo Arts and Entertainment District in this joint venture. Terms & Conditions will be on view at Jordan Faye Contemporary & Thrive from March 26 – April 25, 2015.

Terms & Conditions, features Hughes’ installations, digital montage, video, and other mixed media work which will span two of three exhibitions spaces within JFC. The Opening Reception for this exhibition is on Thursday March 26th / 5:00 - 9:00pm. There will also be an Artist Talk on Saturday April 18th at 2pm.Jordan Faye Contemporary is located at 218 W Saratoga Street on the top floor of The MAP Building. The gallery is free and open to the public Tuesday – Thursday 12 – 6p, Saturdays from noon until 5p and also by appointment.

Jason Hughes is an interdisciplinary artist with an emphasis on sculpture, drawing, and print media. For the last several years his research has focused on the history of American economic power and its influence over cultural representation in the United States. His creative practice is quite diverse including textiles, collages, and cast sculptures from shredded currency; a series of large scale prints that are ornate abstract composites of money; and sculptural objects from appropriated street barricades used for crowd control. His work addresses issues of high and low craft, production and trade, as well as shifts in representation and the perception of value.

About Jason Hughes

Jason Hughes is an artist and curator based in Baltimore, MD. He received his BFA in sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2004 and attended the acclaimed AICAD New York Studio Program during the fall of 2003. He is currently a MFA candidate in the Intermedia and Digital Art program at UMBC. Hughes has exhibited his work both nationally and internationally since 2005.

In 2014, his work was selected for an exhibition at Marianne Boskey Gallery curated by Mera Rubell as well as the exhibition Washington Color Abstraction at the Gabarron Foundation Carriage House Center for the Arts curated by Donald Kuspit. His artwork has been featured in the New York Times, New American Paintings, and Art in America.

ABOUT IM+DA at UMBC

Incidental Matters is made up of six MFA thesis projects is hosted by UMBC’s Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC), Department of Visual Arts, and College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. UMBC’s INTERMEDIA + DIGITAL ARTS (IMDA) M.F.A. Program is where interdisciplinary artists seek to expand or reinvent their professional practice. The IMDA program is committed to artists that pose unique conceptual and social challenges while offering them an environment that provides courses in emerging methods, contemporary art and theory, a studio, teaching opportunities, engaged faculty, premier visiting artists and research centers that are typical of a research university. Each year these emerging artists present their culminating work in the form of installations, new media, performance, interactive sculpture and other conceptual art objects. The MFA exhibition is created with a professionally designed journal published by IMDA journal. The 2015 M.F.A thesis exhibition venues for “Incidental Matters” will be located a short alley walk from each other in two buildings in Baltimore’s downtown Bromo Arts & Entertainment District.

ABOUT JFC & THRIVE

THRIVE at Jordan Faye Contemporary is an arts organization dedicated to enriching the lives of artists, curators and the community in which they reside. THRIVE offers consulting, workshops and extended residency experiences. THRIVE provides individual artists with short exhibition opportunities designed to help navigate today’s art world. THRIVE grants curators and arts organizations exhibition space to assist them in reaching a broader audience while mentoring them in the curatorial process. THRIVE is the next generation of Jordan Faye Contemporary’s Salon Series designed to create a more inclusive thought provoking and insightful community of emerging artists, curators, writers & musicians who wish to share the wealth and knowledge of their collective experiences with one another.

Jordan Faye Contemporary has continued to redefine the role of the gallery, creating exhibitions to meet the specific needs of artists and art enthusiasts in Baltimore. Founded in 2006 as a platform to give emerging artists a wider audience, we champion the work of early to mid-career artists. Through our gallery exhibitions, THRIVE and presenting works at international art fairs, Jordan Faye Contemporary exposes a larger community to the engaging work of dozens of artists. Currently the gallery represents fifteen artists, who are now at various stages in their careers. Our mission is to show work that is not only of contemporary interest but will be of lasting historical significance.

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