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Opening Reception Friday Dec 3 – 6-8 pm.

Jeffrey Sincich

OPEN/CLOSED

Park Life Gallery

December 3, 2021– Jan 15, 2022

Open/Closed is a body of work that aims to highlight everyday, essential services and objects

that often went unnoticed or were under appreciated pre pandemic. Shining a light on the things

that helped keep our lives running during the past year and a half of uncertainty and daily change

is the artist’s attempt to say thank you. Signs advertising constantly changing hours, window

grates keeping people out while also attempting to be beautiful, and an ever changing landscape

of businesses are all inspiration for this work and are a reminder that it requires a constant effort

to keep a community running.

Artist Statement

Inspired by the built landscape around us and how we interact with it, Sincich is intrigued by

handmade signage, architecture, long standing storefronts and other human made alterations of a

place. Signs offering repair work, storefronts selling everyday products and architecture that

shows signs of use and wear all offer an insight into how our world works. He believes these

things are worth celebrating, as they are what create the unique fabric of the places that we live.

Sincich uses quilting to represent the feeling of comfort, tradition and history. Like a handmade

quilt, elements of the urban environment offer people a sense of place, belonging and safety.

They both have traces of the hand that created them and are unique in their own ways. They can

be displayed, passed down, altered, mended or repurposed or discarded. They each represent a

part of their community, surroundings and history and offer different meanings for anyone who

lives with or around them. The use of found objects brings a sense of history or familiarity that

can hold different connotations to each viewer.

Bio

Jeffrey Sincich (he/him, b. 1990) is an artist based in San Francisco, CA. He graduated from the

University of Florida in 2012 with a BFA in ceramics and has co-run a sign painting company in

Portland, OR since 2015. His work uses textiles and found objects to highlight everyday objects

and scenes from his environment that often go unnoticed but deserve attention.