Jeremiah Jenkins
Diablo Valley College Art Gallery
321 Golf Club Road, Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
February 2 – 23, 2017

Everything Must Go
Hashimoto Contemporary
804 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94109
February 4 – 25, 2017
Reception: February 4, 6-9 pm

This February, both the Diablo Valley College Art Gallery in Pleasant Hill and Hashimoto Contemporary in San Francisco present solo exhibitions of work by artist Jeremiah Jenkins. The exhibition at Diablo Valley College Art Gallery is a 10 year post-graduate retrospective of mixed media work by Jenkins, while the exhibition at Hashimoto Contemporary presents exclusively new work. Jenkins, born in Tennessee and now based in the Bay Area, produces sculpture, installation, and performance, often incorporating and reconfiguring found objects. For Everything Must Go at Hashimoto Contemporary, Jenkins presents a new iteration of his ongoing Trophy series, as well as a new series of ceramic assemblages, and a number of other new sculptures. The retrospective at the Diablo Valley College Art Gallery includes earlier iterations of the artist’s Trophy series, as well as a variety of other sculptures and performance documentation.
 

Installation view, Jeremiah Jenkins at the Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, 2017. Courtesy of the artist and the Diablo Valley College Art Gallery.


 

BP Mandala, 2011. Sand. Courtesy of the artist and the Diablo Valley College Art Gallery.


 

Mistaken Water (Coca-cola), 2013. Pyrographed and painted gourds, shells, and wax. Courtesy of the artist and the Diablo Valley College Art Gallery.


 

A Lure (Commodities), 2017. Coins, lure, wood, and brass plate, 5 x 8 x 2 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Hashimoto Contemporary.


 

Installation view, Jeremiah Jenkins at Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, 2017. Courtesy of the artist and Hashimoto Contemporary.


 

Commemorate (Savior), 2017. Broken ceramics, and gold luster, 16 x 18 x 4 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Hashimoto Contemporary.


 

Victory (Stockpile), 2017. Plastic, paint, and marble, 6 x 3 x 1 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Hashimoto Contemporary.


 

For four months of 2015, SFAQ operated the SFAQ [Project Space], a social sculpture and miniature institution, bringing free and thoughtful arts programming to the Tenderloin district of San Francisco. Jeremiah Jenkins provided the community with free MFA degrees at the Tenderloin Institute of Art.