Jackie Castillo
New and Recent Works
Opening reception: Friday, Jan 17, 3 – 5pm
Exhibition on view: Jan 18 – 24, 2025
Gallery hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 12 – 5pm, and by appointment by contacting jc61194@usc.edu
Roski Graduate Gallery (Los Angeles Arts District) 1262 Palmetto St, Los Angeles, CA 90013
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Embracing the mediums of film photography, sculpture, and installation, Jackie Castillo’s practice is marked by an ongoing investigation between city infrastructure, collective memory, and the isolation and anxiety felt by working-class immigrants. Castillo’s site-specific installations combine photographs of suburban and urban landscapes with architectural remnants to explore the ways in which place, labor, memories, and identity can become fractured, estranged, or made invisible. Often printed on materials such as reclaimed tiles, bricks, and cement pavers, photographs of turning neighborhoods, demolitions sites, and fenced lawns are only visible in parts—mirroring the violent shifts of a city plagued by increasing displacement and gentrification. At once the scaffold and the debris, the repair and the ruin, her work maintains a sense of hope, impermanence, and instability reflective of the historical and material changes in the built environment and the precarious and often invisible labor responsible for its making, unmaking, and rebuilding.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jackie Castillo is a Los Angeles-based artist working in sculpture, installation, and film
photography. She studied at the School of Photography at Orange Coast College and hold a B.A. in Art from the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture. Her research has largely focused on the history of land development in Southern California since the late 19th century and its vast, yet violent relationship with the cultural and material landscapes that have existed in this region for hundreds of years. Her practice is based in walking and documenting the ever-changing Southern California urban and suburban landscape on all film formats. She is an adjunct faculty member at the Cypress College School of Photography in California. In 2023, Castillo’s work was acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She was also awarded the 2021 Individual Artist Fellowship by the California Arts Council. She has a forthcoming solo exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in Spring 2025.
